Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Centaurea melitensis L.
, legitimate , scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753) , Species Plantarum 2 :
917
[tax. nov.]
Type:
"Habitat in Melita."
Bentham, G. (5 January 1867) , Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3 :
458
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Centaurea apula Lam.
legitimate
Tepper, J.G.O. (1880) , On the characteristics and distribution of the native and naturalised plants about Ardrossan, Yorke's Peninsula. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3 :
45
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888) , Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1 :
534
[secondary reference]
Hamilton, A.G. (1892) , On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26 :
235
[secondary reference]
Rodway, L. (1903) , The Tasmanian Flora :
97
[secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906) , The Plants of New South Wales :
201
[secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913) , Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants :
276
[secondary reference]
common name:
Star Thistle
[n/a]
Black, J.M. (1929) , Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4 :
655, Fig. 317
[secondary reference]
common name:
Maltese Cockspur
[n/a]
Domin, K. (1930) , Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89) :
1241
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Centaurea apula Lam.
legitimate
Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4 :
936, Fig. 1244
[secondary reference]
common name:
Maltese Cockspur
[n/a]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains :
375-376
[secondary reference]
common name:
Maltese Cockspur
[n/a]
Curtis, W.M. (1963) , Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2 :
380
[secondary reference]
common name:
Maltese Cockspur
[n/a]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory :
394, Fig. 395C (bract).
[secondary reference]
common name:
Maltese Cockspur
[n/a]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981) , Plants of Western New South Wales :
720
[secondary reference]
common name:
Wild Irishman
[n/a]
common name:
Maltese Thistle
[n/a]
common name:
Cockspur Thistle
[n/a]
common name:
Malta Thistle
[n/a]
common name:
Napa Star Thistle
[n/a]
common name:
Maltese Cockspur
[n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
75
[secondary reference]
Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia :
412, Fig. 531
[secondary reference]
common name:
Maltese cockspur
[n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 :
164
[secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986) , Asteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2 :
585
[secondary reference]
common name:
Cockspur Thistle
[n/a]
common name:
Maltese Cockspur
[n/a]
Lander, N.S. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987) , Asteraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2 :
666-667
[secondary reference]
common name:
Maltese Cockspur
[n/a]
common name:
Cockspur Thistle
[n/a]
Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992) , Centaurea. Flora of New South Wales 3 :
326
[secondary reference]
common name:
Cockspur Thistle
[n/a]
common name:
Maltese Cockspur
[n/a]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994) , Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49 :
368
[secondary reference]
Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999) , Asteraceae. Flora of Victoria 4 :
682, Fig. 129n
[secondary reference]
common name:
Cockspur Thistle
[n/a]
common name:
Malta Thistle
[n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2 :
499
[secondary reference]
common name:
Maltese Cockspur
[n/a]
common name:
Cockspur Thistle
[n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011) , Australian Plant Census :
-
[secondary reference]
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (formerly naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (formerly naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015) , Asteraceae Subfam. 2. Carduoideae Trib. 1. Cardueae. Flora of Australia 37 :
77-78, Plate 6, Fig. 5H-K, map
[secondary reference]
common name:
Maltese Cockspur
[n/a]
common name:
Malta Thistle
[n/a]
Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016) , Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2 :
268-269, photos 11-13
[secondary reference]
common name:
Maltese Cockspur
[n/a]
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016) , Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island :
12
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Centaurea apula Lam.
legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (formerly naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (formerly naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)