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 Eleocharis acuta

Cyperaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Cyperaceae(fam.)
Eleocharis(gen.)
acuta(sp.)

Eleocharis acuta R.Br.

, legitimate

, scientific

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

:

224

[tax. nov.]

Type: (D.J.) v.v.

Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1 November 1817), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 5(1)

:

102

[basionym]

basionym of:

Scirpus acutus (R.Br.) Poir.

nom. illeg.

Boeckeler, J.O. (1878), Diagnosen teils neuer, teils ungenugend beshcriebener bekannter Cyperaceen.

Flora: oder Allgemeine Botanischer Zeitung

:

35

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Eleocharis palustris var. mucronulata Boeckeler

legitimate

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

:

294

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Eleocharis mucronulata Nees

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

125

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4

:

7

[secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

241

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Eleocharis gracilis R.Br.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roem. & Schult.

legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

:

594

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

447-448

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Scirpus acutus (R.Br.) Poir.

nom. illeg.

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

Flora of South Australia

:

91

[secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae.

Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis

:

12

[secondary reference]

Blake, S.T. (1939), A monograph of the genus Eleocharis in Australia and New Zealand.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland

:

114-117

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Scirpus tener Spreng.

legitimate

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

:

160, Fig. 216

[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

:

493

[secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

:

86, Fig. 81.

[secondary reference]

common name:

Common Spike-rush

[n/a]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

533

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Eleocharis mucronulata Nees

legitimate

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

:

164

[secondary reference]

common name:

Common Spike-rush

[n/a]

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

:

14

[secondary reference]

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

:

40

[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:

Common spikerush

[n/a]

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

Flora of the Perth Region

:

881

[secondary reference]

common name:

Common Spike-rush

[n/a]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

294, Fig. 42Q

[secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

374-375

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Eleocharis.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

107, Fig. 35B

[secondary reference]

common name:

Common Spike-rush

[n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

432

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Eleocharis gracilis R.Br. legitimate by

Blake, S.T. (1939), A monograph of the genus Eleocharis in Australia and New Zealand.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland

50(12)

: 112-113 misapplication: Eleocharis gracilis R.Br. legitimate by

Turner, J.S., Smithers, C.N. & Hoogland, R.D. (1968), The conservation of Norfolk Island

: 32

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

330, Fig. 67q-s

[secondary reference]

common name:

Common Spike-rush

[n/a]

Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4

:

174

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1

:

273

[secondary reference]

common name:

Common Spike-rush

[n/a]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets.

The Electronic Flora of South Australia

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Heleocharis acuta Boeckeler

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Eleocharis pallens S.T.Blake

legitimate

common name:

Common Spike-rush

[n/a]

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6

:

-

[secondary reference]

common name:

Common Spikerush

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Heleocharis acuta Boeckeler

orth. var.

orthographic variant:

Helcocharis acuta F.Muell.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Scirpus acuta Poir.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Scirpus acutus (R.Br.) Poir.

nom. illeg.

nomenclatural synonym:

Eleocharis acuta R.Br. var. acuta

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Eleocharis mucronulata var. minor Nees

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Eleocharis mucronulata Nees var. mucronulata

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Eleocharis mucronulata Nees

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Eleocharis bivaginata Steud.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Eleocharis acuta var. platylepis Hook.f.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Heleocharis mucronulata Boeckeler

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Heleocharis mucronulata var. minor Boeckeler

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Heleocharis palustris var. mucronulata Boeckeler

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Eleocharis palustris var. mucronulata Boeckeler

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Scirpus mucronulatus (Nees) Kuntze

legitimate

doubtful taxonomic synonym:

Scirpus acutus Spreng.

nom. illeg.

misapplication: Eleocharis dietrichiana Boeckeler legitimate by

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (15 April 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse.

Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie

35(1)

: 82 misapplication: Eleocharis dietrichiana Boeckeler legitimate by

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae.

Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis

: 12 misapplication: Eleocharis gracilis R.Br. legitimate by

Blake, S.T. (1939), A monograph of the genus Eleocharis in Australia and New Zealand.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland

50(12)

: 112-113 misapplication: Eleocharis gracilis R.Br. legitimate by

Turner, J.S., Smithers, C.N. & Hoogland, R.D. (1968), The conservation of Norfolk Island

: 32 misapplication: Eleocharis pallens S.T.Blake legitimate by

Barker, W.R., Barker, R.M., Jessop, J. & Vonow, H. (ed.) (18 March 2005), Census of South Australian Vascular Plants 5th Edition.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Supplement

1

: 78, 379

APC Comment: A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2601 (1991) stated that Poiret did not validly make the combination Scirpus acutus. However, under Article 33.1 of the 2006 (Vienna) edition of the ICBN, this name is considered to be validly published.
APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW, NI, ACT, Vic, Tas

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Eleocharis pallens S.T.Blake legitimate by

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

Flora of South Australia

1

: 91

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

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

:

85

[secondary reference]