Clitoria galactia (Linnaeus) Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 2: 1026. 1763.

"Habitat in Jamaica." RCN: 5371.

Basionym: Glycine galactia L. (1759) .

Lectotype (Fortunato in Turland & Jarvis in Taxon 46: 470. 1997): Herb. Linn. No. 901.24 (LINN) .

Current name: Galactia pendula Pers. ( Fabaceae: Faboideae).

Note: Fawcett & Rendle (Fl. Jamaica 4: 55. 1920) treated material in Sloane’s herbarium (BM-SL) as the type, but this was not seen by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.