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 Chlorophytum laxum

Asparagaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Asparagales(ordo)
Asparagaceae(fam.)
Chlorophytum(gen.)
laxum(sp.)

Chlorophytum laxum 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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277

[tax. nov.]

Type: "(T.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1870), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 7(53)

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71

[basionym]

basionym of:

Phalangium laxum (R.Br.) F.Muell.

legitimate

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

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118

[secondary reference]

Anonymous (1978), Annual Report for 1977/78.

Annual Report of the Botany Branch and the Queensland Herbarium

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21

[secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. (1979), Liliaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

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205-206

[secondary reference]

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

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49

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

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43

[secondary reference]

Henderson, R.J.F. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Appendix; Chlorophytum.

Flora of Australia

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473

APC

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Arnheim S Bay [Caledon Bay, N.T.], 6 Feb. 1803, R.Brown Iter Australiense 5709; lecto (here chosen): BM (central plant on sheet bearing Brown's tag `Arnheim S Bay Chlorophytum laxum prodr. 277')."

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Henderson, R.J.F. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Chlorophytum.

Flora of Australia

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349, Figs 70, 107, Map 399

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Phalangium laxum (R.Br.) F.Muell.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Chlorophytum xerotinum F.Muell.

legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Anthericaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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997, Fig. 299E

[secondary reference]