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 Boerhavia dominii

Nyctaginaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Caryophyllanae(superordo)
Caryophyllales(ordo)
Nyctaginaceae(fam.)
Boerhavia(gen.)
dominii(sp.)

Boerhavia dominii Meikle & Hewson

, legitimate

, scientific

Hewson, H.J. & Meikle, R.D. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Nyctaginaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

9, 318, Fig. 3H-K, Map 8

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Kangaroo Hills Stn, Qld, 2 Apr. 1965, M. Lazarides 7122; holo: CANB."

pro parte misapplication: Boerhavia mutabilis R.Br. legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1865), The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria Lithograms

: t. 67

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

:

74

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

56

[secondary reference]

Fosberg, F.R. (15 March 1988), New & noteworthy plants from Great Barrier Reef sand cays, Australia.

:

59

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Boerhavia glabrata Blume

legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Nyctaginaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

187

[secondary reference]

common name:

Tarvine

[n/a]

Koch, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Nyctaginaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

88, Fig. 21B

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

:

308

[secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia

:

149

[secondary reference]

Vernacular: noowanyj (Bardi)

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

Flora of Victoria

:

103, Fig. 22a-c

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Boerhavia diffusa L. legitimate by

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

: 119

common name:

Tah-vine

[n/a]

Vernacular: Murra (Koorie name)

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Nyctaginaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

187

[secondary reference]

common name:

Tarvine

[n/a]

Jessup, L.W. (2003), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 1 Changes to names or status of taxa

:

-

[secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Boerhavia diffusa L. legitimate by

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Nyctaginaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

1

: 96-97, Fig. 12E

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

:

374

[secondary reference]

common name:

Tarvine

[n/a]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Boerhavia mutabilis R.Br. legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1865), The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria Lithograms

: t. 67 pro parte misapplication: Boerhavia diffusa L. legitimate by

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

Edn. 2, 2

: 333, Fig. 472 misapplication: Boerhavia diffusa L. legitimate by

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

: 119

APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic