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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The query is not case sensitive.
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 Dichopogon humilis

Asparagaceae Juss.

Dichopogon humilis Kunth

, legitimate

, scientific

Kunth, K.S. (1843), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 4

:

623

[tax. nov.]

Type: Insula van Diemen (Gunn, v.s. in herb. reg. Berol).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony.

Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly

:

19

[secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (3 May 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(6)

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51

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Arthropodium laxum Hook.f.

nom. illeg.

Baker, J.G. (1876), Revision of the genera and species of the Anthericeae and Eriospermeae.

Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany

:

319

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Dichopogon leimonophilus Baker

nom. inval., pro syn.

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

:

58

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Dichopogon strictus (R.Br.) Baker

legitimate

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

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194

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Dichopogon strictus (R.Br.) Baker

legitimate

Brittan, N.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Arthropodium.

Flora of Australia

:

342

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Arthropodium minus R.Br.

legitimate

Brittan, N.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Dichopogon.

Flora of Australia

:

345

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Dichopogon strictus (R.Br.) Baker legitimate by

Baker, J.G. (1876), Revision of the genera and species of the Anthericeae and Eriospermeae.

Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany

15

: 319

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Liliaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

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385

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Arthropodium minus R.Br.

legitimate

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

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Arthropodium strictum R.Br. legitimate by

Baker, J.G. (1876), Revision of the genera and species of the Anthericeae and Eriospermeae.

Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany

15

: 319

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

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Arthropodium minus R.Br.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Arthropodium minus R.Br.

legitimate