Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Asperula charophyton

Rubiaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Gentianales(ordo)
Rubiaceae(fam.)
Asperula(gen.)
charophyton(sp.)

Asperula charophyton Airy Shaw & Turrill

, legitimate

, scientific

Airy Shaw, H.K. & Turrill, W.B. (18 April 1928), Asperulae Australienses.

Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew

:

101-102

[nom. et stat. nov.]

Type: "Mackenzie River and Suttor River, N.D., F. von Müller (type)."

replaced synonym:

Asperula conferta var. elongata Benth.

legitimate

Etymology: The general habit of this species, at any rate in the dried state, is strongly reminiscent of a Charophyte.

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

276-277

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Asperula conferta var. elongata Benth.

legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

188

[secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rubiaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

331, Fig. 47B

[secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Allen, W.K. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Asperula.

Flora of New South Wales

:

489

[secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

627, 629, Fig. 122e

[secondary reference]

common name:

Elongate Woodruff

[n/a]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online

:

-

[secondary reference]

common name:

Strapleaf Woodruff

[n/a]

Thompson, I.R. (5 January 2009), A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubiaceae: Rubiaceae) in Australia.

:

51, Fig. 5

BHL

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Asperula conferta var. elongata Benth.

legitimate

misapplication: Asperula oligantha var. conferta-elongata Maiden & Betche nom. illeg. by

Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1916), A Census of New South Wales Plants

: 188

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Vic

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census.

A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

:

71

[secondary reference]

Text: "... sensu Curtis (1963) recorded in error"