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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You will get suggestions as you type in your query, they tell you what your query will return, and you can select one for an exact match.
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 Pteris viridis

Pteridaceae E.D.M.Kirchn.

Pteris viridis Forssk.

, legitimate

, scientific

Forsskål, P. (1775), Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica

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cxxiv, 186

[tax. nov.]

Vahl, M.(H.) (1794), Symbolae Botanicae 3

:

104

[basionym]

basionym of:

Adiantum viride (Forssk.) Vahl

legitimate

Swartz, O. (1806), Synopsis Filicum

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127

[basionym]

basionym of:

Cheilanthes viridis (Forssk.) Sw.

legitimate

Kuhn, F.A.M. in Decken, C. von der (ed.) (1879), Reisen in Ost-Afrika in den Jahren 1859-1865 3(3)

:

16

[basionym]

basionym of:

Pteridella viridis (Forssk.) Kuhn

legitimate

Prantl, K.A.E. (1882), Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 3

:

420

[basionym]

basionym of:

Pellaea viridis (Forssk.) Prantl

legitimate

Bostock, P.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Adiantaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

268

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Pellaea viridis (Forssk.) Prantl var. viridis

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Pellaea viridis (Forssk.) Prantl

legitimate

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Byng, J.W. (9 February 2018), GLOVAP Nomenclature Part 1.

The Global Flora: a practical flora to vascular plant species of the world

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22

[basionym]

basionym of:

Hemionitis viridis (Forssk.) Christenh.

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

:

49

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Pellaea viridis (Forssk.) Prantl

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Pellaea viridis (Forssk.) Prantl

legitimate