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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
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You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Hibiscus rhodopetalus

Malvaceae Juss.

Hibiscus rhodopetalus (F.Muell.) F.Muell. ex Benth.

, legitimate

, scientific

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

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209

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Abelmoschus rhodopetalus F.Muell.

legitimate

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

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14

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1885), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 2

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3

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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25

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

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54

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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58, Fig. 43

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

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956

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Abelmoschus rhodopetalus F.Muell.

legitimate

Beard, J.S. in Beard, J.S. (ed.) (1965), Descriptive Catalogue of West Australian Plants

:

64

[secondary reference]

Borssum Waalkes, J. van (1966), Malesian Malvaceae revisited.

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93

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Abelmoschus moschatus subsp. tuberosus (Span.) Borss.Waalk.

legitimate

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

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113

[secondary reference]

Comment: Appears in square brackets and italics as an "erroneous record".

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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69

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Abelmoschus moschatus subsp. tuberosus (Span.) Borss.Waalk.

legitimate

Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (2010), Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edn. 6

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Abelmoschus moschatus subsp. tuberosus (Span.) Borss.Waalk.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Abelmoschus moschatus subsp. tuberosus (Span.) Borss.Waalk.

legitimate