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 Acacia incrassata

Fabaceae Lindl.

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

Acacia incrassata Hook.

, legitimate

, scientific

Hooker, W.J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1841), Icones Plantarum 4

:

t. 370

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Swan River Settlement, Australia; J. Drummond"

Bentham, G. in Hooker, W.J. (1842), Notes on Mimoseae, with a synopsis of species.

London Journal of Botany

:

330

[basionym]

basionym of:

Acacia decipiens var. incrassata (Hook.) Benth.

legitimate

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

:

351

BHL

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Acacia decipiens R.Br.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Maslin, B.R. (7 February 1978), Studies in the genus Acacia (Mimosaceae) - 8 A revision of the Uninerves - Triangulares, in part (the tetramerous species).

:

308-311, Figs 15, 24 (map)

BHL

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Swan River, N. Holland. Drummond. (K – upper right hand specimen on sheet stamped "Herbarium Hookerianum 1867"; iso: K)"

taxonomic synonym:

Acacia decipiens var. incrassata (Hook.) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Acacia vernicosa W.Fitzg.

legitimate

pro parte misapplication: Acacia decipiens R.Br. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. by

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

: 351 misapplication: Acacia biflora R.Br. legitimate by

Paxton, J. (1842), Paxton's Magazine of Botany 9

: 221 & plate misapplication: Acacia decipiens var. elongata Benth. legitimate by

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

Plantae Preissianae

1(1)

: 9

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

:

86, 89

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Acacia vernicosa W.Fitzg.

legitimate

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

Flora of the Perth Region

:

223, Fig. 64

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Acacia vernicosa W.Fitzg.

legitimate

Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A

:

500-501, Fig. 63J-K, Map 365

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Acacia decipiens var. incrassata (Hook.) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Acacia vernicosa W.Fitzg.

legitimate

pro parte misapplication: Acacia decipiens R.Br. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. by

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

: 351 misapplication: Acacia biflora R.Br. legitimate by

Paxton, J. (March 1841), Paxton's Magazine of Botany 8

: 44 misapplication: Acacia biflora R.Br. legitimate by

Paxton, J. (1842), Paxton's Magazine of Botany 9

: 221 & plate misapplication: Acacia decipiens var. elongata Benth. legitimate by

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

Plantae Preissianae

1(1)

: 9

Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001), Wattle - Acacias of Australia

:

-

[secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (3 December 2003), A synopsis of Racosperma C.Mart. (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae).

Austrobaileya

:

469

[basionym]

basionym of:

Racosperma incrassatum (Hook.) Pedley

legitimate

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Acacia decipiens var. incrassata (Hook.) Benth.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Racosperma incrassatum (Hook.) Pedley

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Acacia vernicosa W.Fitzg.

legitimate

pro parte misapplication: Acacia decipiens R.Br. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. by

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

: 351 misapplication: Acacia biflora R.Br. legitimate by

Paxton, J. (March 1841), Paxton's Magazine of Botany 8

: 44 misapplication: Acacia biflora R.Br. legitimate by

Paxton, J. (1842), Paxton's Magazine of Botany 9

: 221 & plate misapplication: Acacia decipiens var. elongata Benth. legitimate by

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

Plantae Preissianae

1(1)

: 9

APC Comment: Chapman, Australian Plant Name Index 1: 22 (1991) listed "Acacia biflora Paxton, nom. illeg." There is no indication in Paxton's Bot. Mag. 8: 44 (1841) or 9: 221 (1842) that he considered that he was describing a new plant. On the contrary he wrote about a species introduced some years earlier. This should be considered (mis)usage of the name A. biflora R.Br. and not a new later homonym.
APC Dist.: WA