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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The query is not case sensitive.
This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Melastoma malabathricum

Melastomataceae Juss.

Melastoma malabathricum L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1

:

390

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in India."

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

:

xliv

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(30)

:

161

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae.

Flora Australiensis

:

292-293

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma denticulatum Labill.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma polyanthum Blume

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma novae-hollandiae Naudin

legitimate

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

:

60

BHL

[secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

:

147

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

1032-1033

[secondary reference]

Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C. Jnr (1943), A contribution to the knowledge of the Melastomataceae occuring in the Malay Archipelago especially in the Netherlands East Indies

:

79-80

[secondary reference]

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

:

133

[secondary reference]

Whiffin, T.P. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Melastomataceae.

Flora of Australia

:

248

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by

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

: 133

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Melastomataceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

198

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1

: 390

Meyer, K. (2001), Revision of the Southeast Asian genus Melastoma (Melastomataceae).

:

364

[secondary reference]

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

:

282

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma affine D.Don

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melastoma denticulatum Labill.

legitimate

common name:

Blue Tongue

[n/a]

common name:

Native Lasiandra

[n/a]

Hosking, J.R., Conn, B.J., Lepschi, B.J. & Barker, C.H. (2011), Plant species first recognised as naturalised or naturalising for New South Wales in 2004 and 2005.

:

98-99

[secondary reference]

common name:

Banks Melastoma

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

2(11)

: xliv

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(30)

: 161

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by

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

: 60

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by

Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C. Jnr (1943), A contribution to the knowledge of the Melastomataceae occuring in the Malay Archipelago especially in the Netherlands East Indies

: 79-80

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by

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

: 133

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by

Meyer, K. (2001), Revision of the Southeast Asian genus Melastoma (Melastomataceae).

Blumea

46(2)

: 364

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Melastoma affine D.Don legitimate by

Hosking, J.R., Conn, B.J., Lepschi, B.J. & Barker, C.H. (2011), Plant species first recognised as naturalised or naturalising for New South Wales in 2004 and 2005.

Cunninghamia

12(1)

: 98-99

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