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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Wolffia arrhiza

Araceae Juss.

Wolffia arrhiza (L.) Horkel ex Wimm.

, legitimate

, scientific

Horkel, J. in Wimmer, C.F.H. (1857), Flora von Schlesein Edn. 3

:

140

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Lemna arrhiza L.

legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

:

162

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

99

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

:

172

[secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

:

453

[secondary reference]

Willis, J.H. (1962), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria 1

:

270

[secondary reference]

Plas, F. van der (1971), Lemnaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

237

[secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta).

Flora of Victoria

:

172

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Wolffia australiana (Benth.) Hartog & Plas legitimate by

Willis, J.H. (1962), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria 1

: 270

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Wolffia australiana (Benth.) Hartog & Plas legitimate by

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

: 172

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Wolffia australiana (Benth.) Hartog & Plas legitimate by

Willis, J.H. (1962), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria 1

: 270

Iamonico, D. & Iberite, M. (2014), Lectotypification of the Linnaean names Lemna arrhiza and L. polyrhiza (Araceae.

:

1314

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Lemna arrhiza L.

legitimate

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

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

:

92

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Wolffia australiana (Benth.) Hartog & Plas legitimate by

Willis, J.H. (1962), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria 1

: 270