Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Cyperaceae Juss.
Eleocharis geniculata ( L.) Roem. & Schult.
, legitimate , scientific
Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1817) , Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 2 :
150
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Scirpus geniculatus L.
legitimate
This combination is sometimes attributed to R.Brown, Prodr. 224 (1810). Brown lists Scirpus geniculatus L. as belonging to his new genus Eleocharis but does not definitely associate the genus and species names as required by ICN Art. 35.2 (Melbourne Code, 2012).
Domin, K. (1915) , Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85) :
449
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Scirpus geniculatus L.
legitimate
Blake, S.T. (1939) , A monograph of the genus Eleocharis in Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 50(12) :
124-125
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis capitata ( L.) R.Br.
legitimate
Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958) , The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology :
203
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis capitata ( L.) R.Br.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis caribaea ( Rottb.) S.F.Blake
legitimate
Kern, J.H. (1974) , Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3) :
536
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
14
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis caribaea ( Rottb.) S.F.Blake
legitimate
Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia :
509
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis capitata ( L.) R.Br.
legitimate
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 :
40
[secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987) , Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26 :
25
[secondary reference]
Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3 :
290, Fig. 42F
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Scirpus geniculatus L.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis caribaea ( Rottb.) S.F.Blake
legitimate
Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region :
1063, Fig. 310I
[secondary reference]
Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4 :
376
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis caribaea ( Rottb.) S.F.Blake
legitimate
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996) , Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia :
206
[secondary reference]
Rye, B.L. (10 October 1997) , A synopsis of the annual species of Cyperaceae from central and southern Western Australia. Nuytsia 11(3) :
408, Fig. 6
[secondary reference]
Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000) , Cyperaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia :
255, Fig. 59
[secondary reference]
State Herbarium of South Australia (2008) , Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia :
-
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Scirpus geniculatus L.
legitimate
National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009) , PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online :
-
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis capitata ( L.) R.Br.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis caribaea ( Rottb.) S.F.Blake
legitimate
Western Australian Herbarium (2011) , FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6 :
-
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Heleocharis geniculata Domin
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Scirpus geniculatus L.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus capitatus L.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus caribaeus Rottb.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis capitata ( L.) R.Br.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Eleogenus capitatus Nees
nom. inval., nom. nud.
taxonomic synonym:
Eleogenus capitatus ( L.) Nees ex Mart.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Heleocharis capitata F.Muell.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis caribaea ( Rottb.) S.F.Blake
legitimate
doubtful taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis setacea R.Br.
legitimate
doubtful taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus setacea Poir.
orth. var.
doubtful taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus setaceus Poir.
nom. illeg.
doubtful taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus brownii Spreng.
legitimate
misapplication:
Eleocharis gracilis R.Br.
legitimate
by Gardner, C.A. (1930) , Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis : 12
misapplication:
Eleocharis gracilis R.Br.
legitimate
by Green, J.W. (1981) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia : 14
APC Comment:
R.Brown, Prodr. 224 (1810), indicates but does not validly make the combination Eleocharis geniculata . A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2607 (1991) stated that Poiret did not validly make the combination Scirpus setaceus . However, under Article 33.1 of the 2006 (Vienna) edition of the ICBN, this name is considered to be validly published.
APC Dist.:
WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW