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 Moschosma polystachyum

Lamiaceae Martinov

Moschosma polystachyum (L.) Benth.

, legitimate

, scientific

Bentham, G. in Wallich, N. (20 December 1830), Synopsis of the genera and species of Indian Labiatae enumerated in the catalogue of the collections in Dr. Wallich's charge.

Plantae Asiaticae Rariores

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13

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Ocimum polystachyon L.

legitimate

Bentham, G. (1835), Labiatarum Genera et Species 7

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708

[secondary reference]

Don, G. (1837), A General History of Dichlamydeous Plants 4(1)

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675

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1848), Labiatae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

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48

[secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

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xlvi

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), A catalogue of plants collected during Mr. Alexander Forrest's geographical exploration of North-west Australia in 1879.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales

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93

[secondary reference]

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

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100

[secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

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234

[secondary reference]

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

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387

[secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II

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158

[secondary reference]

Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia

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108

[secondary reference]

Keng, W. (1978), Labiatae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

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366

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Basilicum polystachyon (L.) Moench

legitimate

Haegi, L.A.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Labiatae (Lamiaceae).

Flora of Central Australia

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312

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Basilicum polystachyon (L.) Moench

legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Lamiaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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393

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Basilicum polystachyon (L.) Moench

legitimate

Conn, B.J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lamiaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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803

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Basilicum polystachyon (L.) Moench

legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia

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112

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Basilicum polystachyon (L.) Moench

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census

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-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Moschosma polystachya Benth.

orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Basilicum polystachyon (L.) Moench

legitimate