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 Osbeckia australiana

Melastomataceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Myrtales(ordo)
Melastomataceae(fam.)
Osbeckia(gen.)
australiana(sp.)

Osbeckia australiana Naudin

, legitimate

, scientific

Naudin, C.V. (1850), Annales des Sciences Naturelles ser. 3, 14

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59

[tax. nov.]

Type: "In Nova-Hollandia prope Port-Essington, Armstrong. Planta a clar. W. Hooker communicata."

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

Flora Australiensis

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291

[secondary reference]

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

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60

BHL

[secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

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273

[secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

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252

BHL

[secondary reference]

Hansen, C. (1977), Ginkgoana, contributions to the flora of Asia and the Pacific Region 4

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72-75

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Osbeckia koolpinyahensis O.Schwarz

legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

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133

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

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47

[secondary reference]

Whiffin, T.P. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Melastomataceae.

Flora of Australia

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247, Figs 62, 86, Map 345

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Osbeckia perangusta F.Muell.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Osbeckia koolpinyahensis O.Schwarz

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Melastomataceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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549-551, Fig. 166C

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2

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141, Fig. 44

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs.

Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs

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72

[secondary reference]