Rhynchosia malacophylla Spreng. Bojer [family LEGUMINOSAE], Hortus Maurit.: 104 (1837). —Meikle in Kew Bull. 6: 179, fig. 5 (1951). —Verdcourt in Kew Bull. 25: 111 (1971); in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 753, fig. 109/38 (1971). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 431 (1989). —Thulin in Fl. Somalia 1: 444 (1993). TAB. 3.5.39, fig. 8. Type material cultivated in England from seeds collected in Zanzibar.
Glycine mollis Hook. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Exot. Flora: t. 201 (1826), non Willd., nom. illegit. Type as for R. malacophylla.
Glycine malacophylla Spreng. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Syst. Veg., cur. post.: 270 (1827).
Rhynchosia hookeri G. Don [family LEGUMINOSAE], Gen. Syst. Gard. Bot. 2: 347 (1832) nom. superfl. Type as for Rhynchosia malacophylla.
Rhynchosia sennaarensis Schweinf. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 18: 655 (1868). Types from Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Rhynchosia sennaarensis var. flavissima Schweinf. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 18: 656 (1868). Types from Ethiopia and Sudan.
Rhynchosia flavissima Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE], in F.T.A. 2: 219 (1871). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 475 (1929). Type from Ethiopia.
Rhynchosia caribaea [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu J.G.Baker in F.T.A. 2: 230 (1871) pro parte. —sensu E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 474 (1929) pro parte, non (Jacq.) DC.