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 Sansevieria trifasciata

Asparagaceae Juss.

Sansevieria trifasciata Prain

, legitimate

, scientific

Prain, D. (1903), Bengal Plants 2

:

1054

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not cited).

Forster, P.I. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Sansevieria.

Flora of Australia

:

78, Fig. 16, Map 96

[secondary reference]

common name:

Mother-in-Law's Tongue

[n/a]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Agavaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

63

[secondary reference]

common name:

Mother-in-law's Tongue

[n/a]

Forster, P.I. (9 September 1992), Notes on the naturalised flora of Queensland, 2.

Austrobaileya

:

763

[secondary reference]

Frischknecht, N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Dracaenaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

51

[secondary reference]

common name:

Mother-in-law's Tongue

[n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

525

[secondary reference]

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised)

Franck, A.R. (2012), Guide to Agave, Cinnamomum, Corymbia, Eucalyptus, Pandanus, and Sansevieria in the Flora of Florida.

:

20, Fig. 12

[secondary reference]

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (31 March 2016), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2015.

:

6

[secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (2017), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 4

:

1101

[basionym]

basionym of:

Dracaena trifasciata (Prain) Mabb.

legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (28 March 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2018.

:

13

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Dracaena trifasciata (Prain) Mabb.

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Dracaena trifasciata (Prain) Mabb.

legitimate