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 Opuntia cylindrica

Cactaceae Juss.

Opuntia cylindrica (Lam.) DC.

, legitimate

, scientific

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1828), Cacteae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

:

471

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Cactus cylindricus Lam.

legitimate

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2

:

400

[secondary reference]

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

:

94

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Lam.) Backeb.

legitimate

Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Cactaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

69, Fig. 14A, Map 84

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Cactus cylindricus Lam.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Lam.) Backeb.

legitimate

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cactaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

204

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Lam.) Backeb.

legitimate

Stajsic, V. & Carr, G.W. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Cactaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

122-123, Fig. 25f-h

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Cactus cylindricus Lam.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Lam.) Backeb.

legitimate

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Cactaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

205

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Lam.) Backeb.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Cylindropuntia imbricata (Haw.) F.M.Knuth legitimate by

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2

: 400

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Lam.) Backeb.

legitimate

Chinnock, R.J. (2015), Feral opuntioid cacti in Australia Part 1. Cylindrical -stemmed genera: Austrocylindropuntia, Cylindropuntia and Corynopuntia.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens Supplement

:

48

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Lam.) Backeb.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Cylindropuntia imbricata (Haw.) F.M.Knuth legitimate by

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2

: 400

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Lam.) Backeb.

legitimate

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

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Cylindropuntia imbricata (Haw.) F.M.Knuth legitimate by

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2

: 400