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 Bruguiera sexangula

Rhizophoraceae Pers.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Malpighiales(ordo)
Rhizophoraceae(fam.)
Bruguiera(gen.)
sexangula(sp.)

Bruguiera sexangula (Lour.) Poir.

, legitimate

, scientific

Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (June 1816), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 4(1)

:

262

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Rhizophora sexangula Lour.

legitimate

White, C.T. & Francis, W.D. (1929), Contribution to the Queensland Flora, No. 4.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland

:

142

[secondary reference]

Ding Hou (1957), A conspectus of the genus Bruguiera (Rhizophoraceae).

Nova Guinea. New Series

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165-166

[secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

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263

[secondary reference]

Ding Hou (September 1958), Rhizophoraceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

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463-464

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Bruguiera australis Arn.

legitimate

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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250

BHL

[secondary reference]

McCusker, A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Rhizophoraceae.

Flora of Australia

:

5, Map 6

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Rhizophora sexangula Lour.

legitimate

APC Dist.: ChI, NT, Qld

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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71

[secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3

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46

[secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Rhizophoraceae.

Flora of Australia

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253-254

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Rhizophora sexangula Lour.

legitimate

common name:

Mangrove

[n/a]

common name:

Tumbu Barau

[n/a]

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

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428

[secondary reference]

Duke, N.C. (2006), Australia's mangroves

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124-125

[secondary reference]

common name:

Upriver orange mangrove

[n/a]

Duke, N.C. & Ge, X.-J. (2011), Bruguiera (Rhizophoraceae) in the Indo-West Pacific: a morphometric assessment of hybridization within single-flowered taxa.

:

46-47, Fig. 5, Map 1

[secondary reference]

common name:

Upriver orange mangrove

[n/a]

Etymology: "'sex-angula' means 'six-angled' (in Latin), and refers to the angular sides of the hypocotyl of this species."