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 Portulaca

Portulacaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Caryophyllanae(superordo)
Caryophyllales(ordo)
Portulacaceae(fam.)
Portulaca(gen.)

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1

:

445

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5

:

204

[secondary reference]

Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis.

A Voyage to Terra Australis

2, Appendix III

:

592

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (18 September 1854), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the colony of Victoria.

Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria

:

10

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

:

168

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

27, 141

[secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

:

75

[secondary reference]

common name:

Pigweed

[n/a]

common name:

Purslane

[n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

:

48

[secondary reference]

common name:

Purslane plants

[n/a]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2

:

39

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: Portulaca oleracea L.

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

224

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Latin name for Purslane."

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

345

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Latin name for Purslane"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

:

155

[secondary reference]

Geesink, R. (6 October 1969), An account of the genus Portulaca in Indo-Australia and the Pacific (Portulacaceae).

:

275-301

[secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

:

160-161

[secondary reference]

Geesink, R. (1971), Portulacaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

126-133

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

77

[secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants

:

268, 269

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

178

[secondary reference]

Toelken, H.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Portulacaceae.

Flora of Central Australia

:

39

[secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Portulacaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

103-104, 106

[secondary reference]

West, J.G. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Portulacaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

:

101

[secondary reference]

West, J.G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Portulacaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

178

[secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

:

392

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Sedopsis (Endl.) Exell & Mendonca

legitimate

West, J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Portulacaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

135-136

[secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Portulacaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

:

550

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Sedopsis (Endl.) Exell & Mendonca

legitimate

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Orchard, A.E. (1993), Portulacaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

119

[secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

89

[secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Portulacaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

216

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA, CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), AR (native and naturalised), NT (native and doubtfully naturalised), SA, Qld (native and naturalised), CSI (naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI, NI, ACT, Vic, Tas

Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997), Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands

:

58

[secondary reference]

West, J.G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Portulacaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

178

[secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

:

694

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Sedopsis (Endl.) Exell & Mendonca

legitimate

Nyffeler, R. & Eggli, U. (2010), Disintegrating Portulacaceae: A new familial classification of the suborder Portulacineae (Caryophyllales) based on molecular and morphological data.

:

236

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Portulacca G.J.Harden & L.J.Murray

orth. var.