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.

Name search
Advanced search

name

You will get suggestions as you type in your query, they tell you what your query will return, and you can select one for an exact match.
The query is not case sensitive.
This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

click the for help.

Include
Pick the types of name to include. If none are checked, then Scientific and cultivated plant names will be included.

Scientific names

Names of cultivated plants

Other names, e.g. common

No. of results

Select the number of results to display.
The total number of results available will also be displayed.

Showing Muellerargia timorensis

Cucurbitaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Cucurbitales(ordo)
Cucurbitaceae(fam.)
Muellerargia(gen.)
timorensis(sp.)

Muellerargia timorensis Cogn.

, legitimate

, scientific

Cogniaux, C.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. & Candolle, A.C.P. (1881), Cucurbitaceae.

Monographiae Phanerogamarum

:

630

[tax. nov.]

Type: "In Timor (Reinwardt in herb. Lugd.-Bat. et Brux.; Bauer n. 56 in herb. Vindob.)."

Telford, I.R.H. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

188, Map 209

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Melothria subpellucida Cogn.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Zehneria ejecta F.M.Bailey

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melothria ejecta (F.M.Bailey) Cogn.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, ChI, NT, Qld

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1

:

22

[secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2

:

23

[secondary reference]

Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Cucurbitaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

166

[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

:

303

[secondary reference]

Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3

:

10

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines

:

Code 2553

[secondary reference]

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

:

142

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Zehneria ejecta F.M.Bailey

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melothria ejecta (F.M.Bailey) Cogn.

legitimate

common name:

Spitting Cucumber

[n/a]