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 Scaevola platyphylla

Goodeniaceae R.Br.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Asterales(ordo)
Goodeniaceae(fam.)
Scaevola(gen.)
platyphylla(sp.)

Scaevola platyphylla Lindl.

, legitimate

, scientific

Lindley, J. (1839), A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony

:

xxvi.

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not cited).

Vriese, W.H. de (1854), Goodenovieae.

Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem ser. 2, 10

:

43

[basionym]

basionym of:

Molkenboeria platyphylla (Lindl.) de Vriese

legitimate

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

:

98-99

BHL

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Molkenboeria platyphylla (Lindl.) de Vriese

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Scaevola semiamplexicaulis DC.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Scaevola candollei de Vriese

legitimate

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

:

88

[secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2

:

378

[basionym]

basionym of:

Lobelia platyphylla (Lindl.) Kuntze

legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

160

[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), Goodeniaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

:

640, Fig. 241

[secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. (12 April 1990), Nomenclatural notes, new taxa and the systematic arrangement in the genus Scaevola (Goodeniaceae) including synonyms.

:

506

[secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1992), Scaevola.

Flora of Australia

:

133-134, Map 169

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Molkenboeria platyphylla (Lindl.) de Vriese

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Scaevola semiamplexicaulis DC.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Scaevola candollei de Vriese

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Molkenboeria semiamplexicaulis (DC.) de Vriese

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Lobelia platyphylla (Lindl.) Kuntze

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue

:

264

[secondary reference]

common name:

Broad-leaved Fanflower

[n/a]