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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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 Vincetoxicum

Apocynaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Gentianales(ordo)
Apocynaceae(fam.)
Vincetoxicum(gen.)

Vincetoxicum Wolf

, legitimate

, scientific

Wolf, N.M. von (1776), Genera Plantarum Vocabulis Characteristicis Definita

:

130

[tax. nov.]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

93

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Cynoctonum E.Mey.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Oxystelma R.Br.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1

:

5

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

157

[secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

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218

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

:

326

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Australia

:

221

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

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

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

Liede-Schumann, S. & Meve, U. (2018), Vincetoxicum (Apocynaceae—Asclepiadoideae) expanded to include Tylophora and allies.

:

131

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Tylophora R.Br.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Hybanthera Endl.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Rhyncharrhena F.Muell.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ischnostemma King & Gamble

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Tylophora R.Br.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Hybanthera Endl.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Rhyncharrhena F.Muell.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Rhynchanthera Benth.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Ischnostemma King & Gamble

legitimate

APC Comment: Rhyncharrhena and Tylophora are recognised as distinct taxa in Vic.
APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI, Vic