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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You will get suggestions as you type in your query, they tell you what your query will return, and you can select one for an exact match.
The query is not case sensitive.
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."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
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 Metrosideros polymorpha

Myrtaceae Juss.

Metrosideros polymorpha Gaudich.

, legitimate

, scientific

Gaudichaud-Beaupre, C. (6 March 1830), Voyage Autour du Monde ... sur les Corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne. Botanique 12

:

482, t. 108, 109

[primary reference]

Type: "In insulis Sandwicensibus. (Alt. 300–600 hex.)."

Hooker, J.D. (1864), Handbook of the New Zealand Flora 1

:

73

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(59)

:

14

[secondary reference]

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

:

59

[secondary reference]

Hemsley, W.B. (1896), The Flora of Lord Howe Island.

Annals of Botany

:

236

[secondary reference]

Maiden, J.H. (1898), Observations on the vegetation of Lord Howe Island.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

:

129

[secondary reference]

Oliver, W. (31 August 1928), The New Zealand species of Metrosideros with a note on Metrosideros collina (Forst.) Gray.

Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

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422

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Metrosideros kermadecensis W.R.B.Oliv. legitimate by

Hooker, J.D. (1864), Handbook of the New Zealand Flora 1

: 73

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

214

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Metrosideros kermadecensis W.R.B.Oliv. legitimate by

Hooker, J.D. (1864), Handbook of the New Zealand Flora 1

: 73

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

214

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Metrosideros sclerocarpa J.W.Dawson legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(59)

: 14

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Metrosideros sclerocarpa J.W.Dawson legitimate by

Hemsley, W.B. (1896), The Flora of Lord Howe Island.

Annals of Botany

10(2)

: 236

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Metrosideros sclerocarpa J.W.Dawson legitimate by

Maiden, J.H. (1898), Observations on the vegetation of Lord Howe Island.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

23(2)

: 129