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 Senna costata

Fabaceae Lindl.

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

Senna costata (J.F.Bailey & C.T.White) Randell

, legitimate

, scientific

Randell, B.R. (19 December 1989), Revision of Cassiinae in Australia 2. Senna Miller sect. Psilorhegma (J.Vogel) Irwin & Barneby.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

:

206

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Cassia costata J.F.Bailey & C.T.White

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cassia australis var. glaucescens Benth.

legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Caesalpiniaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

354, Fig. 105C

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Cassia costata J.F.Bailey & C.T.White

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cassia australis var. glaucescens Benth.

legitimate

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

:

77

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Cassia costata J.F.Bailey & C.T.White

legitimate

common name:

Ram's Horns

[n/a]

Randell, B.R. & Barlow, B.A. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Senna.

Flora of Australia

:

101-102, Map 83

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Cassia costata J.F.Bailey & C.T.White

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cassia australis var. glaucescens Benth.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Cassia costata J.F.Bailey & C.T.White

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cassia australis var. glaucescens Benth.

legitimate

misapplication: Cassia australis Sims legitimate by

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

: 90

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld