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 Rhaponticum repens

Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl

Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo

, legitimate

, scientific

Hidalgo, O., Garcia-Jacas, N., Garnatje, T. & Susanna, A. (2006), Phylogeny of Rhaponticum (Asteraceae, Cardueae-Centaureinae) and related genera inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequence data: taxonomic and biogeographic implications.

Annals of Botany

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714

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Centaurea repens L.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.

legitimate

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Centaurea repens L.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Centaurea picris Pall.

nom. inval., nom. nud.

taxonomic synonym:

Centaurea picris Pall. ex Willd.

legitimate

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

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. 2. Carduoideae Trib. 1. Cardueae.

Flora of Australia

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72-73, map

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Centaurea repens L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Centaurea picris Pall. ex Willd.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Acroptilon picris (Pall. ex Willd.) C.A.Mey.

legitimate

common name:

Hard Heads

[n/a]

common name:

Russian Knapweed

[n/a]

Hind, D.J.N. (18 May 2019), Leuzea repens, a new combination (Compositae: Cardueae: Centaureinae).

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3 [online only]

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leuzea repens (L.) D.J.N.Hind

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leuzea repens (L.) D.J.N.Hind

legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (21 March 2023), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2022.

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16

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leuzea repens (L.) D.J.N.Hind

legitimate