Some fun with organisms names!

Since we met a lot of very nice (and fun!) examples regarding the challenges related to organisms' names, here is a (non-exhaustive) list:

Homonyms

Exactly the same name, but not the same organism

At the genus level

Iris vs Iris

This is not so uncommon, and it is the reason why binomial nomenclature was introduced!

At the species level

But even with the use of binomial names, some uncertainty remains!

Example: Ficus variegata vs Ficus variegata

Common names

Things get even worse (and funnier!) with common names, here are some:

• Partridge berry (a plant)
• The African olive is the fruit of Canarium schweinfurthii, not the olive tree! There is even a bird named after it (African Olive Pigeon)!
• The elephant apple can refer to different plants (Dillenia philippinensis or Dillenia indica), or to the fruit of Limonia acidissima, also named Indian wood apple

An actual abstract

It's all about beans!

The levels of antinutritional and toxic factors 
were determined in several Philippine indigenous legumes, 
namely, hyacinth bean (Dolichos lablab L.) lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.), 
sabawel or velvet bean (Mucuna curanii), sam-samping (Clitoria ternatea), 
rice bean (Vigna umbellata), jackbean (Canavalia ensiformis),
and swordbean (Canavalia gladiata). Low levels of condensed 
tannins (0–2.48 mg catechin /g) and protein-precipitable 
polyphenols (0.16–0.77 mg tannic acid/gram) were observed 
in raw mature seeds of the six legumes analyzed in this 
preliminary study. Seeds of hyacinth bean, jackbean, and
lima bean had relatively high levels of phytate phosphorus
ranging from 6.6 to 11.6 mg of phytate P/g of sample. 
Lower values ( <5) were obtained for sabawel and swordbean
as well as some varieties of mungbean used as controls. 
The indigenous legumes analyzed had low levels of less than 
50 μg/g of cyanide in the seeds, immature and mature leaves, 
and immature pods using two methods of analysis. Among the 
legumes investigated, hyacinth bean had the highest trypsin 
inhibitor activity ranging from 14 to 27 units/mg sample for
four accessions. Accession 6-1 of sabawel had 20 units/mg. 
Sword bean and jack bean had low levels of 1 to 5 units/mg 
except for one jack bean accession (A-1) which had 9 units/mg. 
Rice bean also had low levels of trypsin inhibitor activity, 5–7 units/mg.

(Reference: https://doi.org/10.1006/jfca.1994.1019)