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 Thomasia purpurea

Malvaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Malvales(ordo)
Malvaceae(fam.)
Thomasia(gen.)
purpurea(sp.)

Thomasia purpurea (W.T.Aiton) J.Gay

, legitimate

, scientific

Gay, J.E. (1821), Monographie des cinq genres de plantes que comprend la tribu des Lasiopétalées dans la famille des Büttneriacées.

Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle

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452, t. 21

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Lasiopetalum purpureum W.T.Aiton

legitimate

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

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253

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Lasiopetalum purpureum W.T.Aiton

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Thomasia rupestris Steud.

legitimate

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

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16

[secondary reference]

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

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28

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

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115

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Perth Region

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141

[secondary reference]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue

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546

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons.

Flora of the South West

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899

[secondary reference]

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

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Lasiopetalum purpureum W.T.Aiton

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Thomasia purpurea (W.T.Aiton) J.Gay var. purpurea

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Thomasia rupestris Steud.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA

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