Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Polygalaceae Hoffmanns. & Link
Polygala L.
, legitimate , scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753) , Species Plantarum 2 :
701
[tax. nov.]
Linnaeus, C. (1754) , Genera Plantarum Edn. 5 :
315
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855) , Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants :
38
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862) , Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1 :
184
[secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (30 May 1863) , Flora Australiensis 1 :
138-141
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants :
141
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889) , Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants :
14
[secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913) , Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants :
43
[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, 2 :
446
[secondary reference]
Type:
Polygala vulgaris L.
Sulman, F. (1914) , A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II :
28-29
[secondary reference]
common name:
Milkworts
[n/a]
Black, J.M. (January 1948) , Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2 :
505
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"Latin form of Greek polygalon ; polys , much; gala , milk; the ancients believed that animals eating some of these plants produced more milk."
Curtis, W.M. (1956) , The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1 :
59-60
[secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains :
146
[secondary reference]
Adema, F.A.C.B. (1967) , A review of the herbaceous species of Polygala in Malesia (Polygalaceae). Blumea 14(2) :
254
[secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory :
244
[secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975) , Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1 :
63
[secondary reference]
Thompson, J. (1978) , Polygalaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 112 :
13-17
[secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981) , An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants :
775, 776, 777
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
176
[secondary reference]
Pedley, L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Polygalaceae. Flora of Central Australia :
198
[secondary reference]
Pedley, L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984) , Polygalaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1 :
486-487
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987) , Polygalaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1 :
472
[secondary reference]
Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992) , Polygalaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3 :
5
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Polygalaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region :
640
[secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999) , Polygalaceae. Flora of Victoria 4 :
131
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2 :
800
[secondary reference]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004) , Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest :
404
[secondary reference]
Eriksen, B. & Persson, C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007) , Polygalaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 9 :
359-360, Figs. 125I, 128A, 129B
[secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3 :
688
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
APC Dist.:
WA (native and naturalised), NT, SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT, Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Kerrigan, R.A. (30 April 2012) , A treatment for Polygala of northern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 25(2) :
96-97
[secondary reference]