Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Marsdenia viridiflora
Apocynaceae Juss.
Marsdenia viridiflora R.Br. , legitimate, scientific
Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 461 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "(T.) v.v."
Brown, R. (3 April 1810), On the Asclepiadeae: 19 [secondary reference]
  • Type: "In Nova Hollandia, intra tropicum, (ubi v.v.)"
Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1: 844 [basionym]
basionym of: Pergularia viridiflora (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 94 [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 218 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 332 [secondary reference]
Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 254 BHL [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 141 [secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 315 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 9 [secondary reference]
Harden, G.J. & Williams, J.B. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 536-537 [secondary reference]
common name: Native Pear [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 715, Fig. 219 [secondary reference]
Forster, P.I. (25 October 1995), Circumscription of Marsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae), with a revision of the genus in Australia and Papuasia. Australian Systematic Botany 8(5): 786 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: Queensland, Port Curtis District: Broad Sound, Thirsty Sounde-inner entrance, R. Brown s.n., 24 Sep. 1802 (Iter Australiense 2885) (with the words 'Marsdenia viridiflora R.Br. Prod. xx' in Brown's hand along the bottom of the sheet) (lecto (here designated): BM (photo at BRI); isolecto: CANB (278893)).
taxonomic synonym: Bidaria leptophylla F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Marsdenia leptophylla F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leichhardtia leptophylla (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Bullock legitimate
Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 265-266 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Bidaria leptophylla F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Marsdenia leptophylla F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leichhardtia leptophylla (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Bullock legitimate
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 46 [secondary reference]
common name: Bush Banana [n/a] common name: Native Pear [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Pergularia viridiflora (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Bidaria leptophylla F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Marsdenia leptophylla F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leichhardtia leptophylla (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Bullock legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW
Forster, P.I. (24 March 2021), Gymnema R.Br. and Leichhardtia R.Br. (Apocynaceae), reinstated genera for taxa previously included in Marsdenia R.Br.: a conspectus for Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Austrobaileya 11: 16 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "Australia. Queensland. PORT CURTIS DISTRICT: Broad Sound, Thirsty Sound – inner entrance, 24 September 1802, R. Brown s.n. (lecto 2nd step [here designated]: BM 001040531; isolecto: BM 001040533 [lacking Iter Australiense 2885], CANB 278893, K 000873030 [lacking date])."
  • Text: "In the 1995 revision the type for Marsdenia viridiflora R.Br. was given as “Broad Sound, Thirsty Sound-inner entrance, R. Brown s.n., 24 Sep. 1802 (Iter Australiense 2885) (with the words ‘Marsdenia viridiflora R. Br. Prod. xx’ in Brown’s hand along the bottom of the sheet)”. There are two sheets of this collection at BM that are available as online images: BM 001040533 does not have the Bennett number 2885, whereas BM 001040531 does. It is possible that the words written in Brown’s hand that I quoted in 1995 are on the reverse side of the white piece of paper that is currently mounted above the modern BM barcode label. The name requires a second step lectotypification due to the presence of two separate accessions at BM, with my original choice being reaffirmed."
Forster, P.I. (24 March 2021), Gymnema R.Br. and Leichhardtia R.Br. (Apocynaceae), reinstated genera for taxa previously included in Marsdenia R.Br.: a conspectus for Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Austrobaileya 11: 16 [basionym]
basionym of: Leichhardtia viridiflora (R.Br.) P.I.Forst. legitimate
Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021. Nuytsia 33: 9 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Leichhardtia viridiflora (R.Br.) P.I.Forst. legitimate