Lackeya multiflora

{{Short description|Species of climbing herbaceous plant}}

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|status = LC

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Contu, S. |year=2012 |title=Lackeya multiflora |volume=2012 |page=e.T19891627A20091575 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T19891627A20091575.en |access-date=3 September 2023}}

|taxon = Lackeya multiflora

|authority = (Torr. & A.Gray) Fortunato, L.P.Queiroz & G.P.Lewis (1996)

|synonyms =

• Dioclea boykinii {{small|A.Gray ex S.Watson (1878)}}
• Dioclea multiflora {{small|(Torr. & A.Gray) C.Mohr (1901)}}
• Dolichos halei {{small|Alph.Wood (1870)}}
• Dolichos multiflorus {{small|Torr. & A.Gray (1838)}}
• Dolichos multiflorus var. halei {{small|Alph.Wood (1861)}}
• Galactia mohlenbrockii {{small|R.H.Maxwell (1979)}}
• Galactia mohlenbrockii var. halei {{small|(Alph.Wood) R.H.Maxwell (1979)}}

|synonyms_ref = {{cite web |title=Lackeya multiflora (Torr. & A.Gray) Fortunato, L.P.Queiroz & G.P.Lewis {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:988795-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=3 September 2023 |language=en}}

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Lackeya multiflora is a climbing herbaceous plant that grows in warm temperate to subtropical riverine woodland, woodland margins and grassland. Its native range is central and south-eastern USA. It is found in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. It has the common name of Boykin's clusterpea (Dioclea multiflora).{{cite web |title=Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin |url=https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=DIMU |website=www.wildflower.org |access-date=12 October 2021}}

The genus name of Lackeya is in honour of James A. Lackey (b. 1943), American botanist at Iowa State University and the Smithsonian Institution and also specialist in Fabaceae and Phaseoleae families of plants.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}} The Latin specific epithet of multiflora means multiple or many flowers.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=184533731X }}

The species was first described as Dolichos multiflorus by Torr. & A.Gray in 1838. The genus Lackeya and new species name were described and published in Kew Bull. Vol.51 on pages 365–366 in 1996.