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 Polycarpaea violacea

Caryophyllaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Caryophyllanae(superordo)
Caryophyllales(ordo)
Caryophyllaceae(fam.)
Polycarpaea(gen.)
violacea(sp.)

Polycarpaea violacea (Mart.) Benth.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

:

165

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Aylmeria violacea Mart.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Achyranthes violacea (Mart.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Aylmeria rosea Mart.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Achyranthes rosea (Mart.) Spreng.

legitimate

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

:

27

[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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322

[secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

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

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228

[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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234

BHL

[secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (1 December 1977), Polycarpaea (Caryophyllaceae) in Australia.

Austrobaileya

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51

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Aylmeria violacea Mart.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Achyranthes violacea (Mart.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Aylmeria rosea Mart.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Achyranthes rosea (Mart.) Spreng.

legitimate

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

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17

[secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. (14 June 1994), Three new species, a new name and notes on Australian Polycarpaea (Carophyllaceae).

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331

[secondary reference]

Type: Croker Island, Northern Territory, 1818, A. Cunningham 267 (iso: BRI, MEL).

nomenclatural synonym:

Aylmeria violacea Mart.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Polycarpon violaceum (Mart.) Kuntze

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Aylmeria rosea Mart.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Achyranthes rosea (Mart.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Achyranthes violacea (Mart.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Polycarpaea fallax Pedley

nom. illeg.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Polycarpa violacea Kuntze

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Aylmeria violacea Mart.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Achyranthes violacea (Mart.) Spreng.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Polycarpon violaceum (Mart.) Kuntze

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Aylmeria rosea Mart.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Achyranthes rosea (Mart.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Polycarpaea fallax Pedley

nom. illeg.

APC Dist.: WA, NT

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5

:

-

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Polycarpaea fallax Pedley

nom. illeg.