Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Vigna vexillata

Fabaceae Lindl.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Fabales(ordo)
Fabaceae(fam.)
Vigna(gen.)
vexillata(sp.)

Vigna vexillata (L.) A.Rich.

, legitimate

, scientific

Richard, A. in Sagra, R. de la (1845), Fanerogamia O¹Plantas Vasculares.

Historia Fisica Politica y Natural de la Isla de Cuba

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191

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Phaseolus vexillatus L.

legitimate

Richard, A. (1846), Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'Ile de Cuba 1

:

440

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2

:

258-259

BHL

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Phaseolus vexillatus L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vigna hirta Hook.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vigna tuberosa A.Rich.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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41

[secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

:

117

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

:

144

[secondary reference]

Vernacular: To-e

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1

:

135, 199, 202

[secondary reference]

common name:

Cow Pea

[n/a]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

779

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Phaseolus vexillatus L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vigna capensis (L.) Walp.

legitimate

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

:

323

[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.

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202-205

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

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130

[secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

323-324

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Phaseolus vexillatus L.

legitimate

common name:

Wild Cow Pea

[n/a]

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae).

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

457, Fig. 139E

[secondary reference]

common name:

Wild Cowpea

[n/a]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2

:

113-114, Fig. 32

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Vigna.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

581

[secondary reference]

common name:

Wild Cow Pea

[n/a]