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 Polygonum arenastrum

Polygonaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Caryophyllanae(superordo)
Caryophyllales(ordo)
Polygonaceae(fam.)
Polygonum(gen.)
arenastrum(sp.)

Polygonum arenastrum Jord. ex Boreau

, legitimate

, scientific

Boreau, A. (1857), Flore du Centre de la France Edn. 3, 2

:

559

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not cited).

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

589

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Polygonum calcatum Lindm.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Polygonum aequale Lindm.

legitimate

common name:

Small-leaved Knotgrass

[n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W. (1972), Student's Flora of North Eastern New South Wales 2

:

181

[secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales

:

230

[secondary reference]

common name:

Wireweed

[n/a]

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia

:

33

[secondary reference]

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

:

176

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

67

[secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales.

Plant Protection Quarterly

:

140

[secondary reference]

common name:

Sand wireweed

[n/a]

Perry, G. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Polygonum.

Flora of the Perth Region

:

113

[secondary reference]

common name:

Sand Wireweed

[n/a]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Polygonaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

288

[secondary reference]

common name:

Wireweed

[n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Polygonaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

274, Fig. 53g-j

[secondary reference]

common name:

Wireweed

[n/a]

common name:

Hogweed

[n/a]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Polygonaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

288

[secondary reference]

common name:

Wireweed

[n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons.

Flora of the South West

:

804

[secondary reference]

common name:

Sand Wireweed

[n/a]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Polygonum calcatum Lindm.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Polygonum aequale Lindm.

legitimate

pro parte misapplication: Polygonum aviculare L. legitimate by

Chorney, K. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Caryophyllaceae.

Flora of South Australia

Edn. 4, 1

: 177

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5

:

-

[secondary reference]

common name:

Sand Wireweed

[n/a]

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

common name:

Wireweed

[n/a]

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

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

:

64

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Polygonum plebeium R.Br. legitimate by

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

3

: 589