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.
Showing Stylidium cornuatum
- APC
- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Asteranae(superordo)
- Asterales(ordo)
- Stylidiaceae(fam.)
- Stylidium(gen.)
- cornuatum(sp.)
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Type: Wotto Nature Reserve, NE of Eneabba, Western Australia [precise locality withheld for conservation purposes], J.A. Wege 1623 & K.A. Shepherd, 22.ix.2009; holotype:PERTH 08336237; isotypes: CANB, K, MEL.
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APC Dist.: WA
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Etymology: "The epithet is derived from the Latin (cornuatus, horn-shaped) and refers to the shape of the upper corolla lobes, which strongly resemble the horns of wildebeest or gnus."