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 Carex gunniana

Cyperaceae Juss.

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

Carex gunniana Boott

, legitimate

, scientific

Boott, F. (1846), Caricis Species Novae.

Transactions of the Linnean Society of London

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143

[tax. nov.]

Type: "In Ins. Van Diemen, Gunn, 578. (Herbb. Lindley & Hooker.)"

Comment: Fl. Males. ser. I, 4 (1954) CCVII gives the date of publication as 6 May 1845, however the paper was not read to the Society until 17 Jun. 1845.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875.

Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania

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93

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

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446

[secondary reference]

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

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129

[secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

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253

BHL

[secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae.

Das Pflanzenreich

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661

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

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497

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae.

Flora of South Australia

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98

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

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170

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

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11

[secondary reference]

Comment: "Previous record not substantiated"

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Carex.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

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160, Fig. 47L

[secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae.

Flora of Victoria

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343-344

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Comment: Varietal rank not recognised in SA or Tas.
APC Dist.: SA, Vic, Tas

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets.

The Electronic Flora of South Australia

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-

[secondary reference]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census.

A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

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84

[secondary reference]