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 Scleria ciliaris

Cyperaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Cyperaceae(fam.)
Scleria(gen.)
ciliaris(sp.)

Scleria ciliaris Nees

, legitimate

, scientific

Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Wight, R. (December 1834), Cyperaceae Indicae, praecipue juxta herbaria Wightii, Wallichii, Roylei et Lindleyi.

Contributions to the Botany of India

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117

[tax. nov.]

Type: "In China, in vicinia Macao urbis; Vachell; Millett."

Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. (1834), Uebersicht der Cyperaceengattungen.

Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde

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303

[secondary reference]

Kunth, K.S. (1837), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 2

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357

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Scleria chinensis Kunth

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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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208

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Scleria chinensis Kunth

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Kern, J.H. (1961), Florae Malesianae Precursores XXX. The genus Scleria in Malaysia.

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174-176

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Scleria chinensis Kunth

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

:

226

BHL

[secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

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734-735

[secondary reference]

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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27

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

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303

[secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

:

569

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Scleria chinensis Kunth

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

APC Dist.: NT, Qld