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 Lablab purpureus

Fabaceae Lindl.

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

Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet

, legitimate

, scientific

Sweet, R. (1826), Sweet's Hortus Britannicus Edn. 1, 2

:

481

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Dolichos purpureus L.

legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W. (1976), Student's Flora of North Eastern New South Wales 3

:

418

[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.

:

244-246

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

325, 328, Fig. 54F

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Dolichos purpureus L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Dolichos lablab L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Lablab niger Medik.

legitimate

common name:

Lablab

[n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

97

[secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Fabaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

229-230

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Dolichos purpureus L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Dolichos lablab L.

legitimate

misapplication: Phaseolus lunatus L. legitimate by

Baker, E.G. in Andrews, C.W. (1900), Polypetalae.

A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)

: 177

common name:

Lablab Bean

[n/a]

common name:

Hyacinth Bean

[n/a]

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised)

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

184-185

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Dolichos purpureus L.

legitimate

Gardner, R.O. (June 2016), Norfolk Island noodlings.

Auckland Botanical Society Journal

:

60

[secondary reference]