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 Elephantopus scaber

Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Asterales(ordo)
Asteraceae(fam.)
Elephantopus(gen.)
scaber(sp.)

Elephantopus scaber L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2

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814

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Indiis."

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

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xlv

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae.

Flora Australiensis

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461

[secondary reference]

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

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77

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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257

[secondary reference]

Koster, J.T. (1935), The Compositae of the Malay Archipelago. I. Vernonieae and Eupatorieae.

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457-464

[secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

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264

BHL

[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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10

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

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302

[secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

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81

[secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. (26 February 2007), A new system for determining which plant species are indigenous in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

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20, Fig. 15 (map)

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

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-

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Elephantopus scaber var. typica J.Kost.

nom. inval.

APC Dist.: NT, Qld (naturalised)

Ghafoor, A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. Cichorioideae Trib. 3. Vernonieae.

Flora of Australia

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173-174, map

[secondary reference]

common name:

Bull's Tongue

[n/a]

common name:

Prickly-leaved Elephant's Foot

[n/a]

common name:

Elephant's Foot

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Elephantopus scaber var. typica J.Kost.

nom. inval.

APC Comment: Infraspecific rank not recognised in Qld.
APC Dist.: NT, Qld (naturalised)