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 Bidens pilosa var. pilosa

Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl

Bidens pilosa L. var. pilosa

, legitimate

, autonym

Hooker, J.D. (March 1881), Compositae.

The Flora of British India

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309

[implicit autonym]

Orchard, A.E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. Asteroideae Trib. 7. Coreopsideae.

Flora of Australia

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461, Fig. 64E-J, map

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Bidens bipinnata var. simplicior F.Muell.

nom. inval., nom. nud.

taxonomic synonym:

Bidens pilosa var. typica Domin

nom. inval.

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (16 March 2017), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2016.

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120

[secondary reference]

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2017), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2016 census to 2017 census.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2017

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19

[secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. (September 2020), A reassessment of Bidens (Asteraceae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter

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44-45

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Bidens pilosa L.

legitimate

Brown, G.K. & Bostock, P.D. (December 2020), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2019 to 2020.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2020

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10

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Bidens pilosa L.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Bidens pilosa L.

legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (21 March 2023), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2022.

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8

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Bidens pilosa L.

legitimate