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 Bossiaea spinescens

Fabaceae Lindl.

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

Bossiaea spinescens Meisn.

, legitimate

, scientific

Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1844), Leguminosae.

Plantae Preissianae

:

82

[tax. nov.]

Type: "In limoso-lapidosis sterilibus summitatis montis Bakewell (York) d. 11. Sept. 1839. Herb. Preiss. No. 1031. fl. et fr. et in glareosis sylvae inter praedia rustica Dom. Barker et Lennard (York) d. 12. Apr. 1840. No. 1030. fr. (Drummond n. 259 et coll. I.)"

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

:

166

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Bossiaea rufa var. foliosa Benth.

legitimate

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

:

92

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Papilionaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

:

242

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Bossiaea rufa var. foliosa Benth.

legitimate

Ross, J.H. (24 May 2006), A conspectus of the Western Australian Bossiaea species (Bossiaeeae: Fabaceae).

:

86-89, Figs 27, 28 (map)

BHL

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Bossiaea rufa var. foliosa Benth.

legitimate

misapplication: Bossiaea paucifolia Benth. legitimate by

Lindley, J. in Lindley, J. (ed.) (1843), Edwards's Botanical Register 29

: t. 63

APC Dist.: WA

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2

:

86

[secondary reference]

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