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 Sonchus

Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Asterales(ordo)
Asteraceae(fam.)
Sonchus(gen.)

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2

:

793

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5

:

347

[secondary reference]

Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis.

A Voyage to Terra Australis

2, Appendix III

:

-

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae.

Flora Australiensis

:

679

[secondary reference]

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

:

277

[secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3

:

316

[secondary reference]

Type: Sonchus oleraceus L.

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae.

Flora of South Australia

:

661

[secondary reference]

common name:

Greco-Latin name of the sow-thistle

[n/a]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4

:

942

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Greco-Latin name of the sow-thistle."

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

:

396

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

389

[secondary reference]

Boulos, L. in Eichler, Hj. (1965), Sonchus and Embergia.

Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957)

:

330

[secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

:

396-398

[secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants

:

1025

[secondary reference]

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

:

86

[secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera.

Flora of Central Australia

:

413

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Embergeria Boulos

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Actites Lander

legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

596

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Perth Region

:

707

[secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

:

17, 157

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Embergeria Boulos

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Actites Lander

legitimate

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Sonchus.

Flora of New South Wales

:

337-338

[secondary reference]

common name:

Sowthistles

[n/a]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Orchard, A.E. (1993), Asteraceae.

Flora of Australia

:

408

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Victoria

:

696-697

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons.

Flora of the South West

:

529

[secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A., Baldwin, B.G., Bayer, R.G., Breitwieser, I., Jeffrey, C., Dillon, M.O., Eldenäs, P., Funk, V., Garcia-Jacas, N., Hind, D.J.N., Karis, P.O., Lack, H.W., Nesom, G., Nordenstam, B., Oberprieler, C., Panero, J.J., Puttock, C., Robinson, H., Stuessy, T.F., Susanna, A., Urtubey, E., Vogt, R., Ward, J. & Watson, L.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Compositae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

:

190-191, Fig. 46

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Actites Lander

legitimate

Thompson, I.R. (22 May 2007), A taxonomic treatment of tribe Lactuceae (Asteraceae) in Australia.

:

74

BHL

[secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

:

807

[secondary reference]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised)

Garnock-Jones, P.J. (2014), Evidence-based review of the taxonomic status of New Zealand's endemic seed plant genera.

New Zealand Journal of Botany

:

185-186

[secondary reference]

Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Sonchus.

Flora of Australia

:

117-118

[secondary reference]

common name:

Sow-thistle

[n/a]

Etymology: "from the Greek sonchos, a classical name for S. asper and S. oleraceus."