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 Merremia quinquefolia

Convolvulaceae Juss.

Merremia quinquefolia (L.) Hallier f.

, legitimate

, scientific

Hallier, H.(J.)G. (1893), Versuch einer naturlichen Gliederung der Convolvulaceen auf morphologischer und anatomischer Grundlage.

Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie

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552

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Ipomoea quinquefolia L.

legitimate

Kleinschmidt, H.E. & Johnson, R.W. (1977), Weeds of Queensland

:

266

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

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303

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines

:

Code 2524

[secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

:

137

[secondary reference]

common name:

Rock Rosemary

[n/a]

common name:

Mile-a-minute

[n/a]

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ipomoea quinquefolia L.

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised)

Johnson, R.W. (23 November 2009), A conspectus of Merremia Dennst. ex Endl. (Convolvulaceae) in Australia with the addition of two species.

Austrobaileya

:

62

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ipomoea quinquefolia L.

legitimate

Staples, G.W. (2010), A checklist of Merremia (Convolvulaceae) in Australasia and the Pacific.

The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore

:

499-500

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ipomoea quinquefolia L.

legitimate

Simões, A.R. & Staples, G.W. (2017), Dissolution of Convolvulaceae tribe Merremieae and a new classification of the constituent genera.

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

:

575

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Distimake quinquefolius (L.) A.R.Simões & Staples

legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2017), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2016 census to 2017 census.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2017

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20

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Distimake quinquefolius (L.) A.R.Simões & Staples

legitimate