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 Heliotropium strigosum

Boraginaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Boraginaceae(fam.)
Heliotropium(gen.)
strigosum(sp.)

Heliotropium strigosum Willd.

, legitimate

, scientific

Willdenow, C.L. (July 1798), Species Plantarum Edn. 4, 1(2)

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743

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Warziger Scorpionschwanz. W. Habitat in Guinea. ... (v.s.)."

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

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397

[secondary reference]

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

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100

[secondary reference]

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

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346

[secondary reference]

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

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324

[secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

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256

BHL

[secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Boraginaceae (except Halgania).

Flora of Central Australia

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291

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

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144

[secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. (13 September 1996), A taxonomic revision of Heliotropium (Boraginaceae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

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637

[secondary reference]

Text: "No material of Australian origin has yet been seen by me. The name has been misapplied frequently to species of sect. Orthostachys in Australia."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

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- APC

[secondary reference]

APC Comment: An Asian taxon, recorded by L.A.Craven, Austral. Syst. Bot. 9: 637 (1996) as having been “…misapplied frequently to species of sect. Orthostachys in Australia.”