Archidendron lucyiF.Muell.

Lucy's lace flowerScarlet bean

WFO wfo-0000187902 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Archidendron lucyi, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. a Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-07-21 / obs. 145059900
Archidendron lucyi, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. b Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 145059988
Archidendron lucyi, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. c Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 145059926
Archidendron lucyi, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. d Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 145059950
Archidendron lucyi, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. e Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 145059970

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Archidendron lucyi is native: Bismarck Archipelago, Jawa, Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Queensland Bismarck ArchipelagoJawaMalukuNew GuineaSolomon Is.Queensland
Native distribution of Archidendron lucyi, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Jawa JAW
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Solomon Is. SOL
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 15 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Affonsea lucyi (F.Muell.) Kuntze
  • Albizia lucyi (F.Muell.) F.Muell.
  • Archidendron chrysocarpum K.Schum. & Lauterb.
  • Archidendron effeminatum de Wit
  • Archidendron lucyi var. schlechteri (Harms) de Wit
  • Archidendron papuanum Merr. & L.M.Perry
  • Archidendron peekelii Lauterb.
  • Archidendron schlechteri Harms
  • Archidendron sogerense Baker f.
  • Archidendron solomonense Hemsl.
  • Pithecellobium chrysocarpum (K.Schum. & Lauterb.) Mohlenbr.
  • Pithecellobium lucyi (F.Muell.) Mohlenbr.
  • Pithecellobium lucyi (F.Muell.) F.Muell.
  • Pithecellobium solomonense (Hemsl.) Mohlenbr.
  • Pithecolobium lucyi F.Muell.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.