Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Rubiaceae Juss.
Mitracarpus hirtus ( L.) DC.
, legitimate , scientific
Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1830) , Rubiaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 4 :
572
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Spermacoce hirta L.
legitimate
White, C.T. (1944) , Contributions to the Queensland Flora, No. 8. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 55 :
68
[secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986) , Rubiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2 :
326-327, Fig. 46K
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Spermacoce hirta L.
legitimate
Dunlop, C.R. (1987) , Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26 :
72
[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 :
311
[secondary reference]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004) , Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest :
444
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Mitracarpus hirtum DC.
orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Spermacoce hirta L.
legitimate
APC Dist.:
NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)
Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (21 March 2023) , Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2022. Nuytsia 34 :
4
[secondary reference]