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 Hymenophyllum samoense

Hymenophyllaceae Mart.

Hymenophyllum samoense Baker

, legitimate

, scientific

Baker, J.G. (1876), On a collection of ferns made in Samoa by the Rev. S. J. Whitmer.

Journal of Botany, British and Foreign

:

10

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Rev. S.J. Whitmee 12, 14 Samoa. ... A specimen of each has been laid into the Kew herbarium."

Copeland, E.B. (26 October 1938), Genera Hymenophyllacearum.

Philippine Journal of Science

:

20

[basionym]

basionym of:

Mecodium samoense (Baker) Copel.

legitimate

Croxall, J.P. (1975), The Hymenophyllaceae of Queensland.

Australian Journal of Botany

:

522-523

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Mecodium samoense (Baker) Copel.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Hymenophyllum shirleyanum Domin

legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Spokes, T.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Hymenophyllaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

131, Map 93

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Mecodium samoense (Baker) Copel.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Hymenophyllum shirleyanum Domin

legitimate

doubtful misapplication: Mecodium australe (Willd.) Copel. legitimate by

Anonymous (November 1946), Checklist of north Queensland ferns.

The North Queensland Naturalists' Club

3

: 4

APC Dist.: Qld

Tindale, M.D. & Roy, S.K. (23 December 2002), A cytotaxonomic survey of the Pteridophyta of Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

846

[secondary reference]

Ebihara, A., Nitta, J.H. & Iwatsuki, K. (2010), The Hymenophyllaceae of the Pacific Area. 2. Hymenophyllum (Excluding Subgen. Hymenophyllum).

Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series B (Botany)

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53

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Hymenophyllum javanicum Spreng.

legitimate

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

25-26

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Samoa, S.J.Whitmee 12 (lecto, designated here: K 000597842; isolecto: BM 001044305*, E 00208912*, GH 00021388*)"

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