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 Samolus repens

Primulaceae Batsch

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Ericales(ordo)
Primulaceae(fam.)
Samolus(gen.)
repens(sp.)

Samolus repens (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Pers.

, legitimate

, scientific

Persoon, C.H. (1805), Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum 1

:

171

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Sheffieldia repens J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

legitimate

Bentham, G. (1833), Labiatarum Genera et Species 3

:

271

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

:

271

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Sheffieldia incana Labill.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus littoralis R.Br.

nom. illeg.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875.

Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania

:

88

[secondary reference]

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia.

Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia

:

75

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Plants of North-Western Australia.

Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council

:

11

[secondary reference]

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

:

91

[secondary reference]

Anonymous (1883), Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council

:

18

[secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

127

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus littoralis R.Br.

nom. illeg.

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

:

212

[secondary reference]

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

:

300

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

452-453

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Sheffieldia repens J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

legitimate

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3

:

678, Fig. 945

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Sheffieldia repens J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

:

359

[secondary reference]

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

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

468, Fig. 107

[secondary reference]

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

:

178

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Primulaceae.

Flora of Central Australia

:

272, Fig. 356B

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Sheffieldia repens J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2

:

250

[secondary reference]

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

:

139

[secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Primulaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

270

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Perth Region

:

197-198

[secondary reference]

common name:

Creeping Brookweed

[n/a]

Makinson, R.O. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Primulaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

505, Plate 32

[secondary reference]

common name:

Creeping Brookweed

[n/a]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Primulaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

277, Fig. 80B

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Victoria

:

522, Fig. 106q-s

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Sheffieldia repens J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

legitimate

common name:

Creeping Brookweed

[n/a]

Makinson, R.O. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Primulaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

505, Plate 32

[secondary reference]

common name:

Creeping Brookweed

[n/a]

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

Flora of the South West

:

810

[secondary reference]

common name:

Creeping Brookweed

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Sheffieldia repens J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Samolus repens (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Pers. var. repens

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Sheffieldia incana Labill.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus ambiguus R.Br.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus littoralis R.Br.

nom. illeg.

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus littoralis R.Br. var. littoralis

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus littoralis var. incana (Labill.) Duby

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus repens var. ambiguus (R.Br.) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus repens var. floribundus Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus repens var. paucifolius Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus bickfordiana W.Fitzg.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus bickfordianus W.Fitzg.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus repens var. procumbens R.Knuth

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus repens var. incana (Labill.) Pax & R.Knuth

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus repens var. stricta Cockayne

legitimate

doubtful taxonomic synonym:

Samolus parviflorus Nees

nom. illeg.

misapplication: Samolus littoralis var. repens (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Endl. legitimate by

Endlicher, S.F.L. (1833), Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae

: 48

APC Comment: Varietal taxa within this species are currently only recognised in WA (Samolus repens var. repens and S. repens var. floribundus) and NI (Samolus repens var. stricta). The taxonomic status of NI plants is uncertain (cf. P.S.Green, Fl. Australia 49: 155 (1994).
APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW, NI, Vic, Tas

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2

:

140

[secondary reference]

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

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

:

65

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Sheffieldia incana Labill.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Samolus littoralis R.Br.

nom. illeg.