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.
Commelinaceae Mirb.
Commelina L.
, legitimate , scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753) , Species Plantarum 1 :
40
[tax. nov.]
Linnaeus, C. (1754) , Genera Plantarum Edn. 5 :
25
[secondary reference]
Brown, R. (27 March 1810) , Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 :
269
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants :
122
[secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906) , The Plants of New South Wales :
277
[secondary reference]
Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913) , An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1 :
457
[secondary reference]
Type:
Commelina communis L.
Black, J.M. (1922) , Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1 :
103
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"After Jan and Kaspar Commelin, Dutch botanists of the 17th and 18th centuries."
Black, J.M. (1943) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1 :
180
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"After Jan and Kaspar Commelin, Dutch botanists of the 17th and 17th centuries"
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains :
429
[secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981) , An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants :
1114, 1115
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
9
[secondary reference]
Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Commelinceae,Eriocaulaceae, Centrolepidaceae. Flora of Central Australia :
427
[secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Commelinaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3 :
76
[secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. (21 August 1990) , Two new species and a new name in Commelina L (Commelinaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 3(2) :
235-238
[secondary reference]
Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Commelinaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region :
1020
[secondary reference]
Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993) , Commelinaceae. Flora of Australia 50 :
441
[secondary reference]
Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Commelinaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4 :
258
[secondary reference]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994) , Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49 :
418
[secondary reference]
Faden, R.B. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998) , Commelinaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4 :
126
[secondary reference]
Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000) , Commelinaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia :
220-222
[secondary reference]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004) , Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest :
130
[secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3 :
205
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Commelyna Endl.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Commelina sect. Eucommelina C.B.Clarke
nom. inval.
APC Dist.:
WA (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI, NI, Vic
Zuntini, A.R., Frankel, L.P., Pokorny, L., Forest, F. & Baker, W.J. (18 July 2021) , A comprehensive phylogenomic study of the monocot order Commelinales, with a new classification of Commelinaceae. American Journal of Botany 108(7) :
1086
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Tapheocarpa Conran
legitimate