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 Sarcostemma brevipedicellatum

Apocynaceae Juss.

Sarcostemma brevipedicellatum P.I.Forst.

, legitimate

, scientific

Forster, P.I. (14 February 1992), A taxonomic revision of Heterostemma Wight & Arn. (Asclepiadaceae: Stapelieae) in Australia and the western Pacific.

Australian Systematic Botany

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59

[tax. nov.]

Type: Cultivated at Didcot (ex plants collected at Glenormiston Station, Toko Range, Gregory North District, Queensland by N.Carr), xii.1982, P.I.Forster 1420 (holo: BRI; iso: AD, CANB, CBG, DNA, K, MEL, PERTH, PRE, QRS distribuendi).

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae.

Flora of Australia

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220, Figs 71, 101d-e, 106, Map 251

[secondary reference]

common name:

Caustic Bush

[n/a]

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia

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63

[secondary reference]

Meve, U. & Liede-Schumann, S. (2012), Taxonomic dissolution of Sarcostemma (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae).

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752

[basionym]

basionym of:

Cynanchum brevipedicellatum (P.I.Forst.) Liede & Meve

legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2016), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2015 census to 2016 census.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2016

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18

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cynanchum brevipedicellatum (P.I.Forst.) Liede & Meve

legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (22 March 2018), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2017.

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11

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cynanchum brevipedicellatum (P.I.Forst.) Liede & Meve

legitimate