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 Xyris indica

Xyridaceae C.Agardh

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Xyridaceae(fam.)
Xyris(gen.)
indica(sp.)

Xyris indica L.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

:

42

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Indiis."

Royen, P. van (March 1953), Xyridaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

373-374

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Xyris paludosa R.Br.

legitimate

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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211

[doubtful taxonomic synonym]

doubtful taxonomic synonym of:

Xyris paludosa R.Br.

legitimate

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

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46

[secondary reference]

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

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

81

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

1024

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Xyris paludosa R.Br.

legitimate

Doust, A.N. & Conn, B.J. (26 October 1994), Xyris L. section Xyris (Xyridaceae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

458, figs 1a-j, 2 (map)

APC

[secondary reference]

Type: 'Habitat in Indiis' (Linnaeus 1753, p.42 ), 'Kotsjiletti-pullu' (Rheede 1689, p. 139, t. 71).

taxonomic synonym:

Xyris paludosa R.Br.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Xyridaceae.

Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia

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220, Fig. 46

[secondary reference]