Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Posidonia australis
Posidoniaceae Vines
Posidonia australis Hook.f. , legitimate, scientific
Hooker, J.D. (3 May 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(6): 43 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Gunn, 1347
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 91 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 121 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1885), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 2: 4 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 6 [secondary reference]
Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 744 [basionym]
basionym of: Alga australis (Hook.f.) Kuntze legitimate
Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 228 BHL [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 276 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 47 [secondary reference]
common name: Submarine plant [n/a]
Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 4 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 47, Fig. 40 [secondary reference]
Thompson, J. (1961), Posidoniaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 15: 77 [secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 426 [secondary reference]
Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 67 [secondary reference]
vernacular name: Marine Fibre Plant [n/a] vernacular name: Fibre-ball Weed [n/a]
Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 270-274 [secondary reference]
Cambridge, M.L. (1975), Seagrasses of South-Western Australia with special reference to the ecology of Posidonia australis Hook.f. in a polluted environment. Aquatic Botany 1: 149-161 [secondary reference]
Jessop, J.P. in Black, J.M. (1978), Flora of South Australia Edn. 3, 1: 77 [secondary reference]
Kuo, J. & Cambridge, M.L. (1978), Morphology, Anatomy and Histochemistry of the Australian Seagrasses of the genus Posidonia Koenig (Posidoniaceae). II. Rhizome and root of Posidonia australis Hook.f. Aquatic Botany 5: 191-206 [secondary reference]
Kuo, J. (1978), Morphology, anatomy and biochemistry of Australian seagrasses of the genus Posidonia Koenig (Posidoniaceae). I. Leaf blade and leaf sheath of Posidonia australis Hook.f. Aquatic Botany 5: 171-190 [secondary reference]
Cambridge, M.L. & Kuo, J. (1979), Two new species of seagrasses from Australia, Posidonia sinuosa and P. angustifolia (Posidoniaceae). Aquatic Botany 6: 317, 326, Figs 1, 4, 7, 10, 12, Tables II & III [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "...the Gunn 1347 specimen at K, and shown in Fig. 1, is here selected as the lectotype..."
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 57 [secondary reference]
Robertson, E.L. in Womersley, H.B S. (1984), Seagrasses. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia 1: 94-96, Plates 8, 15, 16, Figs 24, 26, 27 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 28 [secondary reference]
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Posidoniaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 728 [secondary reference]
common name: Fibreball Weed [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Posidoniaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 28, pl. 2 [secondary reference]
common name: Seagrass [n/a]
Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 161, Fig. 34a-c [secondary reference]
common name: Marine Fibre-plant [n/a] common name: Fibre-ball Weed [n/a]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Posidoniaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 25, Fig. 9 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Caulinia oceanica (L.) DC. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Caulinia australiana F.Muell. nom. illeg.
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 440 [secondary reference]
common name: Sea-grass [n/a] common name: Fibreball Weed [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Caulinia australiana F.Muell. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Alga australis (Hook.f.) Kuntze legitimate misapplication: Caulinia oceanica (L.) DC. nom. illeg. by Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 339
  • APC Dist.: WA, SA, NSW, Vic, Tas
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]
pro parte misapplied to: Posidonia sinuosa Cambridge & J.Kuo legitimate by Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 270-274
[pro parte misapplied]
pro parte misapplied to: Posidonia sinuosa Cambridge & J.Kuo legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Black, J.M. (1978), Flora of South Australia Edn. 3, 1: 77
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]
pro parte misapplied to: Posidonia angustifolia Cambridge & J.Kuo legitimate by Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 270-274
[pro parte misapplied]
pro parte misapplied to: Posidonia angustifolia Cambridge & J.Kuo legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Black, J.M. (1978), Flora of South Australia Edn. 3, 1: 77
Kuo, J. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Posidoniaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 115, Plate 24 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Alga australis (Hook.f.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Caulinia australiana F.Muell. nom. illeg. misapplication: Caulinia oceanica (L.) DC. nom. illeg. by Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 339