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 Trymalium spathulatum

Rhamnaceae Juss.

Trymalium spathulatum F.Muell.

, nom. illeg.

, scientific

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants

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42

[tax. nov.]

Type: "On the stony ranges near Mount Lofty, in South Australia, and in Kangaroo Island."

Comment: nom. illeg., non Trymalium spatulatum (Labill.) G.Don (1839). Treated here as homonyms under ICN Art. 53.2 (Shenzhen Code, 2018).
Comment: See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria.

Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany

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40

[secondary reference]

Reissek, S. (1858), Plantae Muellerianae Australasicae - Celastrineae, Rhamneae.

Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde

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278

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Trymalium daphnoides Reissek

legitimate

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

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430

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Spyridium spathulatum F.Muell. ex Benth.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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

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61

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Cryptandra spathulata F.Muell.

nom. illeg.

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Rhamnaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

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461

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Trymalium floribundum Steud.

legitimate

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5

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10

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Trymalium floribundum Steud.

legitimate

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

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Spyridium spathulatum F.Muell. ex Benth.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Spyridium spathulatum F.Muell. ex Benth.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Kellermann, J. (7 April 2021), The importance of the ‘h’ – Parahomonymy in Trymalium (Rhamnaceae: Pomaderreae).

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26

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Spyridium daphnoides (Reissek) Kellermann

legitimate