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 Comesperma defoliatum

Polygalaceae Hoffmanns. & Link

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Fabales(ordo)
Polygalaceae(fam.)
Comesperma(gen.)
defoliatum(sp.)

Comesperma defoliatum F.Muell.

, legitimate

, scientific

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae.

The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria

:

189

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Scattered over sandy-heathy ridges from Port Phillip to the Broadribb River. In Tasmania found near Southport; in New South Wales at Illawarra by Mr. Shepherd, at the Clarence River by Dr. Beckler."

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma nudiusculum DC.

legitimate

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

:

148

[secondary reference]

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

:

75

[secondary reference]

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

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8

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

15

BHL

[secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

11

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

:

42

[secondary reference]

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

:

44

[secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II

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27

[secondary reference]

Anonymous (1923), A Census of the Plants of Victoria with their regional distribution and the vernacular names Edn. 1

:

40

[basionym]

basionym of:

Bredemeyera defoliata (F.Muell.) Anon.

legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1

:

59

[secondary reference]

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

:

146

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

63

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera defoliata (F.Muell.) Anon.

legitimate

Thompson, J. (1978), Polygalaceae.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series

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11-12

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera defoliatum Anon.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera defoliata (F.Muell.) Anon.

legitimate

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

:

175

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera defoliata (F.Muell.) Anon.

legitimate

Pedley, L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Polygalaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

488-489, Fig. 76A

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera defoliata (F.Muell.) Anon.

legitimate

Pedley, L. (14 July 1984), A revision of Comesperma (Polygalaceae) in Queensland.

Austrobaileya

:

9

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera defoliata (F.Muell.) Anon.

legitimate

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Polygalaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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5

[secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Polygalaceae.

Flora of Victoria

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135, Fig. 24c

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera defoliata (F.Muell.) Anon.

legitimate

common name:

Leafless Milkwort

[n/a]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera defoliata (F.Muell.) Anon.

legitimate

misapplication: Comesperma nudiusculum DC. legitimate by

Steetz, J. (1847), Revisio generis Comesperma

: 18

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

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

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

:

63

[secondary reference]