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 Viscum ovalifolium

Santalaceae R.Br.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Santalanae(superordo)
Santalales(ordo)
Santalaceae(fam.)
Viscum(gen.)
ovalifolium(sp.)

Viscum ovalifolium DC.

, legitimate

, scientific

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1830), Loranthaceae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

:

278

[tax. nov.]

Type: "in Indiae orient. insulâ Penang. Wallich. ... (v.s. comm. ab ampl. coetu merc. angl. Ind. or.)"

Barlow, B.A. (5 September 1983), A revision of the Viscaceae of Australia.

:

31-33, figs 3-5, 8 (map)

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Viscum pedunculatum Barlow

legitimate

misapplication: Viscum orientale Willd. legitimate by

Danser, B.H. (1931), Contributions a l'etude de la Flore des Indes Neerlandaises XIX: The Loranthaceae of the Netherlands Indies.

Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg

ser. 3, 11(3-4)

: 466

Barlow, B.A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Viscaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

134, Fig. 33A, Map 165

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Viscum pedunculatum Barlow

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, Qld

Green, J.W. (20 June 1988), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 6

:

11

[secondary reference]

Koch, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Viscaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

582, Fig. 177B

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

:

313

[secondary reference]

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

:

552

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Viscum pedunculatum Barlow

legitimate

Start, A.N. & Thiele, K.R. (2023), Mistletoes of Western Australia

:

136

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "From the Latin for 'oval', in reference to the leaf shape.'