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 Centaurea repens

Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl

Centaurea repens L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1763), Species Plantarum Edn. 2, 2

:

1293

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Oriente."

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1838), Compositae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

:

663

[basionym]

basionym of:

Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.

legitimate

Audas, J.W.C., St John, P.R.H. & Morris, P.F. (1932), Alien plants recorded as naturalised in Victoria.

The Victorian Naturalist

:

154

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4

:

936

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Centaurea picris Pall.

nom. inval., nom. nud.

common name:

Creeping Knapweed

[n/a]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957)

:

328

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.

legitimate

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

:

70

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.

legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

587

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.

legitimate

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Acroptilon.

Flora of New South Wales

:

327

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.

legitimate

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

679

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Acroptilon repens (L.) DC.

legitimate

Hidalgo, O., Garcia-Jacas, N., Garnatje, T. & Susanna, A. (2006), Phylogeny of Rhaponticum (Asteraceae, Cardueae-Centaureinae) and related genera inferred from nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequence data: taxonomic and biogeographic implications.

Annals of Botany

:

714

[basionym]

basionym of:

Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo

legitimate

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. 2. Carduoideae Trib. 1. Cardueae.

Flora of Australia

:

72

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo

legitimate

Hind, D.J.N. (18 May 2019), Leuzea repens, a new combination (Compositae: Cardueae: Centaureinae).

:

2 [online only]

[basionym]

basionym of:

Leuzea repens (L.) D.J.N.Hind

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leuzea repens (L.) D.J.N.Hind

legitimate