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 Ophioglossum petiolatum

Ophioglossaceae Martinov

Ophioglossum petiolatum Hook.

, legitimate

, scientific

Hooker, W.J. (1823), Exotic Flora 1

:

56

[tax. nov.]

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

221

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Ophioglossum vulgatum var. pedunculosum (Desv.) Domin

legitimate

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants.

Flora of Victoria

:

31, Fig. 5b

[secondary reference]

common name:

Stalked Adder's-tongue

[n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

553

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Ophioglossum vulgatum L. legitimate by

Maiden, J.H. (1904), The Flora of Norfolk Island. Part i.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

28(4)

: 740 misapplication: Ophioglossum vulgatum L. legitimate by

Laing, R.M. (1915), A revised list of the Norfolk Island flora, with some notes on the species.

Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

47

: 15

Chinnock, R.J. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Ophioglossaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

107

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Ophioglossum reticulatum L.

legitimate

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

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Ophioglossum reticulatum L.

legitimate

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I.

Australian Systematic Botany

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15

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Ophioglossum reticulatum L.

legitimate