Linnaeus, C. (1763), Species Plantarum Edn. 2, 2: 1018 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Jamaica."

Urban, I. (1928), Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 9: 457 [basionym]

basionym of: Macroptilium lathyroides (L.) Urb. legitimate

Webb, L.J. (1948), Guide to the medicinal and poisonous plants of Queensland. Bulletin (CSIRO) 232: 91 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 241 [secondary reference]

Maréchal, R.J.J-M., Mascherpa, J.-M. & Stainier, F. (1978), Etude taxonomique d'un groupe complexe d'especes des genres Phaseolus et Vigna (Papilionaceae) sur la base de donnees morphologiques et polliniques, traitees par l'analyse informatique. Boissiera 28: 152 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macroptilium lathyroides (L.) Urb. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 124 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macroptilium lathyroides (L.) Urb. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 322 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Macroptilium lathyroides (L.) Urb. legitimate

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