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 Bauhinia malabarica

Fabaceae Lindl.

Bauhinia malabarica Roxb.

, legitimate

, scientific

Roxburgh, W. (1832), Flora Indica; or descriptions of Indian Plants, by the late William Roxburgh 2

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321

[tax. nov.]

Type: "... a native of Malabar, in the Botanic Garden at Calcutta,"

Bentham, G. in Miquel, F.A.W. (August 1852), Leguminosae.

Plantae Junghuhnianae

:

261

[basionym]

basionym of:

Piliostigma malabaricum (Roxb.) Benth.

legitimate

White, C.T. (1936), Contributions to the Queensland Flora, No. 5.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland

:

57

[secondary reference]

George, A.S. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Bauhinia.

Flora of Australia

:

162, Map 176

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Piliostigma malabaricum (Roxb.) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Bauhinia acida Reinw. ex Korth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Piliostigma acidum (Reinw. ex Korth.) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Bauhinia gilesii F.Muell. & F.M.Bailey

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Bauhinia hawkesiana F.M.Bailey

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Piliostigma malabaricum var. acidum (Reinw. ex Korth.) de Wit

legitimate

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

:

106

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Piliostigma malabaricum (Roxb.) Benth.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Piliostigma malabaricum (Roxb.) Benth.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Piliostigma malabaricum (Roxb.) Benth. var. malabaricum

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Bauhinia malabarica Roxb.

nom. inval., nom. nud.

taxonomic synonym:

Bauhinia acida Reinw. ex Korth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Piliostigma acidum (Reinw. ex Korth.) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Bauhinia gilesii F.Muell. & F.M.Bailey

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Bauhinia hawkesiana F.M.Bailey

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Piliostigma malabaricum var. acidum (Reinw. ex Korth.) de Wit

legitimate

APC Comment: Treated as Piliostigma malabarica in Qld.
APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Bandyopadhyay, S. & Pathak, M.K. (2013), Neotypification of Bauhinia malabarica Roxb. (Fabaceae).

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194, Fig. 1

[secondary reference]

Neotype: "(designed here): INDIA: India Orientalis, 1813, Roxburgh s.n. (BM [BM001001035], arrow)"

Bandyopadhyay, S. & Pathak, M.K. (2013), Neotypification of Bauhinia malabarica Roxb. (Fabaceae).

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194

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Piliostigma malabaricum (Roxb.) Benth.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Piliostigma malabaricum (Roxb.) Benth.

legitimate