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 Cordyline australis

Asparagaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Asparagales(ordo)
Asparagaceae(fam.)
Cordyline(gen.)
australis(sp.)

Cordyline australis (G.Forst.) Endl.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

:

29

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Dracaena australis G.Forst.

legitimate

Kunth, K.S. (1850), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 5

:

29

[secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1

:

191

[secondary reference]

Conran, J.G. & Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Agavaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

720, Fig. 139d-e

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Dracaena australis G.Forst.

legitimate

common name:

New Zealand Cabbage-Tree

[n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

526

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker legitimate by

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

: 29

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Dracaena australis G.Forst.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Dracaenopsis australis (G.Forst.) Planch.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Terminalis australis (G.Forst.) Kuntze

legitimate

APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), NSW (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker legitimate by

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

: 29

Hosking, J.R., Conn, B.J., Lepschi, B.J. & Barker, C.H. (2011), Plant species first recognised as naturalised or naturalising for New South Wales in 2004 and 2005.

:

88

[secondary reference]

common name:

Ti Kouka

[n/a]

common name:

Cabbage Tree

[n/a]

common name:

New Zealand Cabbage Tree

[n/a]

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

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

:

82

[secondary reference]