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 Asplenium flaccidum

Aspleniaceae Newman

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Polypodiidae(subcl.)
Polypodiales(ordo)
Aspleniaceae(fam.)
Asplenium(gen.)
flaccidum(sp.)

Asplenium flaccidum G.Forst.

, legitimate

, scientific

Forster, J.G.A. (1786), Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus

:

80

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Noua Zeelandia."

Thunberg, C.P. (1795), Nova Acta Academiae Scientiarum Petropolitanae 9

:

158, t. D, figs 1, 2

[basionym]

basionym of:

Caenopteris flaccida (G.Forst.) Thunb.

legitimate

Hooker, J.D. (1854), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae 2(5)

:

35

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), The Vegetation of the Chatham-Islands

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67

[basionym]

basionym of:

Asplenium marinum var. flaccida (G.Forst.) F.Muell.

legitimate

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

286

BHL

[secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

:

288

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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644

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (October 1914), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

104

[basionym]

basionym of:

Asplenium bulbiferum var. flaccidum (G.Forst.) Domin

legitimate

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

:

75

[secondary reference]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1

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34-35

[secondary reference]

vernacular name:

Weeping Spleenwort

[n/a]

Brownsey, P.J. (1977), A taxonomic revision of the New Zealand species of Asplenium.

New Zealand Journal of Botany

:

70

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Lectotype in BM; New Zealand, Dusky Bay, coll. J.R. and G. Forster."

Brownsey, P.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Aspleniaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

305

APC

[secondary reference]

common name:

Weeping Spleenwort

[n/a]

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

Tindale, M.D. & Roy, S.K. (23 December 2002), A cytotaxonomic survey of the Pteridophyta of Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

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856

[secondary reference]

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I.

Australian Systematic Botany

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54

[secondary reference]