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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You will get suggestions as you type in your query, they tell you what your query will return, and you can select one for an exact match.
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 Ipomoea sinuata

Convolvulaceae Juss.

Ipomoea sinuata Ortega

, legitimate

, scientific

Ortega, C.G. de (1798), Novarum, aut Rariorum Plantarum Horti Reg. Bot. Matric

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84

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Insulâ Cubâ, ubi Aguinaldo vulgò vocatur."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(59)

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17

[secondary reference]

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

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95

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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347

[secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

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285

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Merremia dissecta (Jacq.) Hallier f.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Merremia dissecta (Jacq.) Hallier f.

legitimate

Johnson, R.W. (23 November 2009), A conspectus of Merremia Dennst. ex Endl. (Convolvulaceae) in Australia with the addition of two species.

Austrobaileya

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57

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Merremia dissecta (Jacq.) Hallier f.

legitimate

Staples, G.W. (2010), A checklist of Merremia (Convolvulaceae) in Australasia and the Pacific.

The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore

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491

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Merremia dissecta (Jacq.) Hallier f. var. dissecta

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Distimake dissectus (Jacq.) A.R.Simões & Staples

legitimate

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