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 Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus

Cyperaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Cyperaceae(fam.)
Gymnoschoenus(gen.)
sphaerocephalus(sp.)

Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Hook.f.

, legitimate

, scientific

Hooker, J.D. (3 September 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(7)

:

83, t. CXLII

BHL

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Chaetospora sphaerocephala R.Br.

legitimate

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

:

380

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Mesomelaena sphaerocephala (R.Br.) Benth.

legitimate

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

240

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Mesomelaena sphaerocephala (R.Br.) Benth.

legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

480

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Chaetospora sphaerocephala R.Br.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Schoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Mesomelaena sphaerocephala (R.Br.) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gymnoschoenus adustus Nees

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Xyris laevis Nees ex Benth.

nom. inval., pro syn.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

91

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Schoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

Kükenthal, G. (1940), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. VIII.

Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis

:

59-60

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Chaetospora sphaerocephala R.Br.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Schoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Mesomelaena sphaerocephala (R.Br.) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Xyris laevis R.Br.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gymnoschoenus adustus Nees

legitimate

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

:

152

[secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

:

499

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

15

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Mesomelaena sphaerocephala (R.Br.) Benth.

legitimate

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family

:

75

[secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

306-307, pl. 21

[secondary reference]

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

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

119-120, Fig. 30J, 38

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Chaetospora sphaerocephala R.Br.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Mesomelaena sphaerocephala (R.Br.) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gymnoschoenus adustus Nees

legitimate

common name:

Button Grass

[n/a]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

258, Fig. 55a-c

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Chaetospora sphaerocephala R.Br.

legitimate

common name:

Button-grass

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Chaetospora sphaerocephala R.Br.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Schoenus sphaerocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Mesomelaena sphaerocephala (R.Br.) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gymnoschoenus adustus Nees

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Xyris laevis Nees ex Benth.

nom. inval., pro syn.

APC Comment: A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2597 (1991) stated that Poiret did not validly make the combination Schoenus sphaerocephalus and indicated that the combination was validly made by Roemer & Schultes (Syst. Veg. 16th edn, 2: 77 (1817)). However, under Article 33.1 of the 2006 (Vienna) edition of the ICBN, this name is considered to be validly published by Poiret and Roemer & Schultes' use of this name is considered to be a secondary reference.
APC Dist.: SA, NSW, Vic, Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census.

A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

:

86

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Mesomelaena sphaerocephala (R.Br.) Benth.

legitimate

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