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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Morinda reticulata

Rubiaceae Juss.

Morinda reticulata Benth.

, legitimate

, scientific

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae.

Flora Australiensis

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424

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Queensland. Albany island, W. Hill; N.E. coast, A. Cunningham."

Baillon, H.E. (1878), Sur le Cephaelis ixoraefolia des jardins.

Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Paris

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218

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Coelospermum decipiens Baill.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

75

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

:

249

[secondary reference]

Vernacular: Ada-a

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1

:

198

[secondary reference]

common name:

Ada-A

[n/a]

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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311

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs.

Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs

:

83

[secondary reference]

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

:

445-446

[secondary reference]

Razafimandimbison, S.G., McCowell, T.D., Halford, D.A. & Bremer, B. (2009), Molecular phylogenetcs and generic assessment in the tribe Morindeae (Rubiaceae): how to circumscribe Morinda L. to be monophyletic?.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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883

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Caelospermum decipiens Baill.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Coelospermum decipiens Baill.

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld

Razafimandimbison, S.G. & Bremer, B. (2011), Nomenclatural changes and taxonomic notes in the tribe Morindeae (Rubiaceae).

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303

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Coelospermum decipiens Baill.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Coelospermum decipiens Baill.

legitimate