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 Sarcostemma

Apocynaceae Juss.

Sarcostemma R.Br.

, legitimate

, scientific

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

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463

[tax. nov.]

Brown, R. (3 April 1810), On the Asclepiadeae

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39-40

[secondary reference]

Type: (not designated).

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

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94

[secondary reference]

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

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326

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae.

Flora of South Australia

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463

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "From Greek sarx, sarkos, flesh; stemma, a crown: alluding to the fleshy corona."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4

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697

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "From Greek sarx, sarkos, flesh; stemma, a crown: alluding to the fleshy corona."

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

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70

[secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Asclepiadaceae.

Flora of Central Australia

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277

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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317

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Williams, J.B. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Asclepiadaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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529

[secondary reference]

common name:

Caustic Vines

[n/a]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Asclepiadaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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715

[secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. (14 February 1992), A taxonomic revision of Sarcostemma R.Br. subgenus Sarcostemma (Asclepiadaceae: Asclepiadeae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

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58

[secondary reference]

Type: Sarcostemma viminale (L.) R.Br. = Cynanchum viminale L.

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae.

Flora of Australia

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218-221

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Oxystelma R.Br.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

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53

[secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

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769

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

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

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

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

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate