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 Acacia anaticeps

Fabaceae Lindl.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Fabales(ordo)
Fabaceae(fam.)
Acacia(gen.)
anaticeps(sp.)

Acacia anaticeps Tindale

, legitimate

, scientific

Tindale, M.D. (14 December 1972), Notes on Australian taxa of Acacia No. 3.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium

:

269, pl. 23

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Close to Wallal Downs homestead, Western Australia, on mud, a nicely shaped tree 12–15 ft. high, F. Lullfitz 5.1970 (NSW 106771). ISOTYPES: PERTH; K; US; L; CANB; AD; BRI; MEL; A."

Maslin, B.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Mimosaceae (family and Acacia).

Flora of Central Australia

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134

[secondary reference]

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

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83

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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293, Fig. 94A

[secondary reference]

Cowan, R.S. & Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11B

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144, Fig. 30K-M, Map 206

[secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae).

Austrobaileya

:

449

[basionym]

basionym of:

Racosperma anaticeps (Tindale) Pedley

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Racosperma anaticeps (Tindale) Pedley

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA

Maslin, B.R., van Leeuwen, S. & Reid, J. (2010), Wattles of the Pilbara

:

-

[secondary reference]

common name:

Duck-head Wattle

[n/a]

Etymology: "The botanical name is derived from the Latin anati- (duck) and -ceps (head) in reference to the shape of the phyllode."