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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The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
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Showing Bidens subalternans var. subalternans

Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Asterales(ordo)
Asteraceae(fam.)
Bidens(gen.)
subalternans(sp.)
subalternans(var.)

Bidens subalternans DC. var. subalternans

, legitimate

, autonym

Sherff, E.E. (1929), New or otherwise noteworthy Compositae. III Contributions from the Hull Botanical Laboratory 397.

Botanical Gazette

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291

[autonym]

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

Flora of Australia

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466, map APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (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]

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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11

[unsourced misapplied]

misapplied to:

Bidens bipinnata L.

legitimate

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

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-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Bidens bipinnata L. legitimate by

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

Flora of Australia

37

: 466, map

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

[unsourced misapplied]

misapplied to:

Bidens bipinnata L.

legitimate