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 Oxystelma esculentum

Apocynaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Gentianales(ordo)
Apocynaceae(fam.)
Oxystelma(gen.)
esculentum(sp.)

Oxystelma esculentum (L.f.) R.Br.

, legitimate

, scientific

Brown, R. in Tuckey, J.H. (1818), Appendix No. V: Observations, systematical and geographical, on Professor Christian Smith's collection of plants from the vicinity of the River Congo.

Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816

:

450, 478

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Periploca esculenta L.f.

legitimate

Schultes, J.A. in Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1820), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 6

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89

[secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

220

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Sarcostemma esculentum (L.f.) R.W.Holm

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Periploca esculenta L.f.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Sarcostemma esculentum (L.f.) R.W.Holm

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Marsdenia brockmaniana W.Fitzg.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (22 March 2018), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2017.

:

11

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Sarcostemma esculentum (L.f.) R.W.Holm

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (1 June 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Periploca esculenta L.f.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Sarcostemma esculentum (L.f.) R.W.Holm

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Marsdenia brockmaniana W.Fitzg.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Marsdenia brockmaniana W.Fitzg.

isonym

APC Dist.: WA, NT