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Showing Hydrocotyle perplexa

Araliaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Apiales(ordo)
Araliaceae(fam.)
Hydrocotyle(gen.)
perplexa(sp.)

Hydrocotyle perplexa A.J.Perkins

, legitimate

, scientific

Perkins, A.J. (10 December 2019), Nomenclatural updates and a new species of annual Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) from Western Australia.

Nuytsia

264-268, Figs 6, 7 (map)

[tax. nov.]

Type: "south side of Mandalay Beach Road, 2.2 km from South Western Highway, Western Australia, 30 October 2018, A.J. Perkins AJP-WA 159 (holo: PERTH 09078185; iso: AD, BRI, MEL)."

taxonomic synonym:

Hydrocotyle hispidula var. tenella Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Hydrocotyle sp. Puberula (H.Eichler 22058) WA Herbarium

[n/a]

taxonomic synonym:

Hydrocotyle puberula H.Eichler

manuscript name

pro parte misapplication: Hydrocotyle hirta R.Br. ex A.Rich. legitimate by

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae.

Flora Australiensis

: 339 misapplication: Hydrocotyle scutellifera Benth. legitimate by

Perkins, A.J. (2019), Molecular phylogenetics and species delimitation in annual species of Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) from South Western Australia.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

134

: 139, Fig. 6 (map)

common name:

Intricate Pennywort

[n/a]

Etymology: "The epithet is derived from the Latin perplexus, meaning ‘obscure, confused, intricate’. It firstly refers to the complicated and confused taxonomic history of this taxon based on the misapplications of obscure, polymorphic fruit character traits formerly used to circumscribe annual taxa in Western Australia. This epithet refers also to the intricate, entanglement of stems in large individual plants and to plants often found growing in dense colonies."

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

- APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Hydrocotyle hispidula var. tenella Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Hydrocotyle puberula J.R.Wheeler, N.G.Marchant & M.Lewington

nom. inval.

taxonomic synonym:

Hydrocotyle sp. Puberula (H.Eichler 22058) WA Herbarium

[n/a]

taxonomic synonym:

Hydrocotyle puberula H.Eichler

manuscript name

pro parte misapplication: Hydrocotyle hirta R.Br. ex A.Rich. legitimate by

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae.

Flora Australiensis

: 339 misapplication: Hydrocotyle scutellifera Benth. legitimate by

Perkins, A.J. (2019), Molecular phylogenetics and species delimitation in annual species of Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) from South Western Australia.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

134

: 139, Fig. 6 (map)

APC Dist.: WA

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