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 Dianella graminifolia

Hemerocallidaceae R.Br.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Asparagales(ordo)
Hemerocallidaceae(fam.)
Dianella(gen.)
graminifolia(sp.)

Dianella graminifolia Kunth & C.D.Bouché

, legitimate

, scientific

Kunth, K.S. (1848), Species novae Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis anno 1847 collectorum.

Index Seminum in Horto Botanici Berolinensi

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[11]

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Nova-Hollandia."

taxonomic synonym:

Dianella paniculata Kunth

nom. inval., pro syn.

Kunth, K.S. (1848), Plantarum species novae ex catalogis hortorum excerptae, I: Ad calcem cat. sem. horti berolinensis, anni 1847.

Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique

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310

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Dianella paniculata Kunth

nom. inval., pro syn.

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

:

46

BHL

[secondary reference]

Schlittler, J. (1940), Monographie der Liliaceengattung Dianella Lam.

Mitteilungen aus dem Botanischen Museum der Universitat Zurich

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269

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Dianella laevis R.Br.

legitimate

Henderson, R.J.F. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Dianella.

Flora of Australia

:

224

[secondary reference]

Type: "cultivated in Berlin, ex Australia; n.v."

Text: "The type is no longer extant and the description is inadequate to allow definite application of the name. Schlittler, op. cit. 269, who probably saw the type, considered it a synonym of D. laevis (= D. longifolia)."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Dianella paniculata Kunth

nom. inval., pro syn.

APC Comment: A name of uncertain application.