About Lackeya multiflora (Torr. & A.Gray) Fortunato, L.P.Queiroz & G.P.Lewis
Lackeya multiflora is a climbing herbaceous plant. It grows in warm temperate to subtropical riverine woodland, woodland margins, and grassland. Its native range is central and south-eastern United States, where it occurs in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. It has the common name Boykin's clusterpea; it was previously known under the synonym Dioclea multiflora. The genus name Lackeya honours James A. Lackey (b. 1943), an American botanist who worked at Iowa State University and the Smithsonian Institution, and is a specialist in the plant families Fabaceae and tribe Phaseoleae. The Latin specific epithet multiflora means multiple or many flowers. This species was first described as Dolichos multiflorus by Torr. & A.Gray in 1838. The new genus Lackeya and the new combination Lackeya multiflora were described and published in Kew Bulletin Volume 51, on pages 365–366, in 1996.
