Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Cyperaceae Juss.
Carpha nivicola F.Muell. , legitimate , scientific
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855) , Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants
34
[tax. nov.]
Type:
"On the highest summits of the Australian Alps, near swamps."
See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.
Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856) , Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8
335-336
[secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (March 1878) , Flora Australiensis 7
381
[taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of:
Carpha alpina R.Br. legitimate
Domin, K. (1915) , Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85)
469
[taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of:
Carpha alpina R.Br. legitimate
Kükenthal, G. (1939) , Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. VI. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis
112
[taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of:
Carpha alpina R.Br. legitimate
Blake, S.T. (1940) , Notes on Australian Cyperaceae, III. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 51(5)
48
[secondary reference]
Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979) , Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1
140, Fig. 102
[secondary reference]
common name:
Broad-leaf flower-rush [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
11
[secondary reference]
Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4
307
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Carpha alpina var. subacaulis Kük. legitimate
Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2
259, Fig. 55d-e
[secondary reference]
common name:
Broad-leaf Flower-rush [n/a]
Wilson, K.L. (26 April 1994) , New taxa and combinations in the family Cyperaceae in eastern Australia. Telopea 5(4)
592
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Carpha alpina var. subacaulis Kük. legitimate
National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009) , PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online
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[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012) , Australian Plant Census
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[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Carpha alpina var. subacaulis Kük. legitimate
isonym:
Carpha nivicola F.Muell. isonym
Bruhl, J.J., Wilson, K.L. & Zhang, X. (10 May 2024) , A taxonomic review of the austral genera Asterochaete and Carpha (Cyperaceae, Carpheae). Australian Systematic Botany 37(3)
35-36, Fig. 8(c) (map)
[secondary reference]
Lectotype:
"Australia: New South Wales: Southern Tablelands: Australian Alps, 1853, F. Mueller (lecto, here designated: MEL 2295059; isolecto: MEL 2295060)."
taxonomic synonym:
Carpha alpina var. subacaulis Kük. legitimate
pro parte misapplication:
Chaetospora alpina (F.Muell. legitimate
by Mueller, F.J.H. von (March 1875) , Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(73)
pro parte misapplication:
Carpha alpina R.Br. legitimate
by Bentham, G. (March 1878) , Flora Australiensis 7
