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 Petunia axillaris

Solanaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Solanales(ordo)
Solanaceae(fam.)
Petunia(gen.)
axillaris(sp.)

Petunia axillaris (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.

, legitimate

, scientific

Britton, N.L., Sterns, E.E. & Poggenburg, J.F. (1888), Preliminary Catalogue of Anthophyta and Pteridophyta reported as growing spontaneously within one hundred miles of New York

:

38

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Nicotiana axillaris Lam.

legitimate

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

:

202

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Petunia nyctaginiflora Juss.

legitimate

Symon, D.E. (2 June 1981), The Solanaceous genera, Browallia, Capsicum, Cestrum, Cyphomandra, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nierembergia, Physalis, Petunia, Salpichroa and Withania, naturalised in Australia.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

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147-148

[secondary reference]

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae.

Flora of Australia

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58-60, Map 61

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Nicotiana axillaris Lam.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Nicotiana obtusisepala Domin

legitimate

APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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403, Fig. 56E

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Nicotiana axillaris Lam.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Nicotiana obtusisepala Domin

legitimate

common name:

Petunia

[n/a]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Solanaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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349

[secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. & Henderson, R.J.F. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Solanaceae.

Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens

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188

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Nicotiana axillaris Lam.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Petunia nyctaginiflora Juss.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Nicotiana obtusisepala Domin

legitimate

APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)