Canavalia virosa [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu Piper & Dunn in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1922: 136 (1922) pro parte. —sensu E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 384 (1929). —sensu Sauer in Brittonia 16: 152 (1964) quoad specim. Afr. —sensu Verdcourt in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 573 (1971). —sensu Drummond in Kirkia 8: 217 (1972). —sensu Gonçalves in Garcia de Orta, Sér. Bot. 5: 65 (1982), non (Roxb.) Wight & Arn.
Canavalia ferruginea Piper [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Piper & Dunn in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1922: 141 (1922). —E.G. Baker, loc. cit.: 385 (1929). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal, part 2: 424 (1932). Lectotype, chosen by Sauer (1964), from South Africa (Mpumalanga).
Canavalia gladiata [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu E.G.Baker., Legum. Trop. Africa: 384 (1929) pro parte. —sensu Robyns in F.C.B. 6: 145, fig. 5B (1954) pro parte, non (Jacq.) DC.
Canavalia africana Dunn [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Piper & Dunn in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1922: 135 (1922). —Verdcourt in Kew Bull. 42: 658 (1987). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 389 (1989). Lectotype, chosen by Verdcourt (1971), from Uganda.
Dolichos virosus Roxb. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Carey, Fl. Indica 3: 301 (1832) pro parte.
Canavalia virosa Roxb. Wight & Arn. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient.: 253 (1834) pro parte.
Canavalia polystachya Schweinf. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Reliq. Kotschy.: 25 (1868) pro parte quoad t. 20 and 21.
Canavalia ensiformis [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu J.G. Baker in F.T.A. 2: 190 (1871). —sensu Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 5: 381 (1916). —sensu Wild in Clark, Victoria Falls Handb.: 150 (1952). —sensu Hepper in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 574 (1958) pro parte, non (Wight & Arn.) Baker.
Canavalia ensiformis var. mollis [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu J.G. Baker in F.T.A. 2: 191 (1871), non (Wight & Arn.) Baker.