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 Canavalia cathartica

Fabaceae Lindl.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Fabales(ordo)
Fabaceae(fam.)
Canavalia(gen.)
cathartica(sp.)

Canavalia cathartica Thouars

, legitimate

, scientific

Thouars, L.M.A. du Petit- in Desvaux, N.A. (ed.) (1813), Observations Botaniques, Economiques et Medicales sur le nouveau genre Canavali.

Journal de Botanique, Appliquee l'Agriculture, a la Pharmacie, a la Medicine et aux Arts

:

81

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not cited).

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

:

239

BHL

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

32

[secondary reference]

Hnatiuk, R.J. (ed.) (1990), Census of Australian Vascular Plants

:

195

[secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Fabaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

221

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Canavalia obtusifolia var. insularis Ridl.

legitimate

misapplication: Canavalia ensiformis (L.) DC. legitimate by

Baker, E.G. in Andrews, C.W. (1900), Polypetalae.

A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)

: 177

APC Dist.: CoI, ChI, NT, Qld

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

:

305

[secondary reference]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Atoll Research Bulletin

:

23

[secondary reference]

common name:

Sea Bean

[n/a]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2

:

55, Fig. 18

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines

:

Code 2547

[secondary reference]

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

:

203

[secondary reference]