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 Brasenia schreberi

Cabombaceae Rich. ex A.Rich.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Nymphaeanae(superordo)
Nymphaeales(ordo)
Cabombaceae(fam.)
Brasenia(gen.)
schreberi(sp.)

Brasenia schreberi J.F.Gmel.

, legitimate

, scientific

Gmelin, J.F. (1791), Systema Naturae Edn. 13, 1

:

853

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not cited).

Jackson, B.D. (6 September 1893), Index Kewensis 1(1)

:

333

[secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia

:

46-48

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Brasenia peltata Pursh

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Beadle, N.C.W. (1976), Student's Flora of North Eastern New South Wales 3

:

127

[secondary reference]

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

:

94

[secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Cabombaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

179

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Brasenia peltata Pursh

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

common name:

Water-shield

[n/a]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1

:

19

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cabombaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

149

[secondary reference]

common name:

Watershield

[n/a]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Cabombaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

32-33, Fig. 3c

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Brasenia peltata Pursh

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

common name:

Water-shield

[n/a]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1

:

21

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Cabombaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

149

[secondary reference]

common name:

Watershield

[n/a]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Hydropeltis purpurea Michx.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Brasenia peltata Pursh

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

taxonomic synonym:

Brasenia purpurea (Michx.) Casp.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cabomba peltata F.Muell.

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Vic

Stanley, T.D. & Orchard, A.E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Cabombaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

278, Fig. 53A, Map 318

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Hydropeltis purpurea Michx.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Brasenia peltata Pursh

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

taxonomic synonym:

Brasenia purpurea (Michx.) Casp.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cabomba peltata F.Muell.

legitimate

common name:

Water Shield

[n/a]

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (November 2015), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2014 census to 2015 census.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2015

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19

[secondary reference]