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 asparagoides

Fabaceae Lindl.

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

Acacia asparagoides A.Cunn.

, legitimate

, scientific

Cunningham, A. in Field, B. (ed.) (April 1825), On the botany of the Blue Mountains.

Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales

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343

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Blue Mountains"

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2

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332

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

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43

[secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

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107

[secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II

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38

[secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

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224

[secondary reference]

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

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147

[secondary reference]

Morrison, D.A. & Davies, S.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Acacia.

Flora of New South Wales

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364

[secondary reference]

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

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468, Fig. 58A-C, Map 322

[secondary reference]

Type: Regent's Glen, Blue Mtns, N.S.W., Oct. 1822, A.Cunningham 213 ; holo: K; iso: A, K.

Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001), Wattle - Acacias of Australia

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-

[secondary reference]

Kodela, P.G. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Acacia.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

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437

[secondary reference]

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

Austrobaileya

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451

[basionym]

basionym of:

Racosperma asparagoides (A.Cunn.) Pedley

legitimate

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

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Racosperma asparagoides (A.Cunn.) Pedley

legitimate

APC Comment: Intergradation between A. asparagoides, A. brownii, A.echinula and A. ulicifolia is reported from central eastern NSW, and hybrids may occur (Tame, 1992; Maslin, 2001).
APC Dist.: NSW