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 Asperula gemella

Rubiaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Gentianales(ordo)
Rubiaceae(fam.)
Asperula(gen.)
gemella(sp.)

Asperula gemella Airy Shaw & Turrill

, legitimate

, scientific

Airy Shaw, H.K. & Turrill, W.B. (18 April 1928), Asperulae Australienses.

Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew

:

102-103

[nom. nov.]

Type: "VICTORIA. ♀: ad flumina Murray et Avoca, N.D., F. von Müller (type)"

replaced synonym:

Galium geminifolium F.Muell.

legitimate

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

:

188

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Asperula geminifolia F.Muell.

legitimate

Marsden, C.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Rubiaceae (except Gardenia).

Flora of Central Australia

:

282

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Galium geminifolium F.Muell.

legitimate

McGillivray, D.J. (13 October 1983), A revision of Galium (Rubiaceae) in Australia and New Zealand.

:

376

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Galium geminifolium F.Muell.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Galium umbrosum var. geminifolium (F.Muell.) C.Moore

legitimate

James, T.A. & Allen, W.K. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Asperula.

Flora of New South Wales

:

488

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Galium geminifolium F.Muell.

legitimate

misapplication: Asperula geminifolia F.Muell. legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1866), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(37)

: 147

common name:

Twin-leaved Bedstraw

[n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

626, Fig. 122a

[secondary reference]

common name:

Twin-leaf Bedstraw

[n/a]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online

:

-

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Galium geminifolium F.Muell.

legitimate

common name:

Twin-leaved Bedstraw

[n/a]

Thompson, I.R. (5 January 2009), A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubiaceae: Rubiaceae) in Australia.

:

40, 45, Fig. 5

BHL

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Galium geminifolium F.Muell.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Galium umbrosum var. geminifolium (F.Muell.) C.Moore

legitimate

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Galium geminifolium F.Muell.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Galium geminifolium F.Muell.

isonym

nomenclatural synonym:

Galium umbrosum var. geminifolium (F.Muell.) C.Moore

legitimate

misapplication: Asperula geminifolia F.Muell. legitimate by

Tate, R. (1890), A Handbook of the Flora of Extratropical South Australia

: 108

APC Dist.: SA, Qld, NSW, Vic