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 Brunoniella australis

Acanthaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Lamiales(ordo)
Acanthaceae(fam.)
Brunoniella(gen.)
australis(sp.)

Brunoniella australis (Cav.) Bremek.

, legitimate

, scientific

Bremekamp, C.E.B. (1964), Proceedings, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen: Series C: Biological and Medical Sciences 67

:

305

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Ruellia australis Cav.

legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1

:

42

[secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales

:

605

[secondary reference]

common name:

Blue Yam

[n/a]

common name:

Blue Trumpet

[n/a]

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

:

61

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ruellia australis Cav.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Dipteracanthus australis (Cav.) Hassk.

legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Acanthaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

454

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ruellia australis R.Br.

nom. illeg.

Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

:

107-112

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ruellia australis Cav.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Dipteracanthus australis (Cav.) Hassk.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Cryphiacanthus australis Nees

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Aporuellia australis (Cav.) Domin

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ruellia australis var. scabra Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ruellia australis var. pumila (R.Br.) Benth.

legitimate

pro parte misapplication: Ruellia acaulis R.Br. legitimate by

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

: 479

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

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

4

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5

:

13

[secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Acanthaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

845-846, Fig. 260B

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ruellia australis Cav.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Ruellia australis R.Br.

nom. illeg.

nomenclatural synonym:

Dipteracanthus australis (Cav.) Hassk.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Aporuellia australis (Cav.) Domin

legitimate

Everett, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Acanthaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

606, pl.29

[secondary reference]

common name:

Blue Trumpet

[n/a]

Jessup, L.W. (22 April 2002), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 2 Changes to names or status of taxa

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ruellia australis Cav.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ruellia australis Cav.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Dipteracanthus australis (Cav.) Hassk.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Cryphiacanthus australis Nees

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Aporuellia australis (Cav.) Domin var. australis

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Aporuellia australis (Cav.) Domin

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ruellia australis R.Br.

nom. illeg.

taxonomic synonym:

Ruellia australis var. scabra Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Aporuellia australis var. scabra (Benth.) Domin

legitimate

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Ruellia acaulis R.Br.

legitimate

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Ruellia australis var. pumila (R.Br.) Benth.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Bean, A.R. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (8 December 2010), Acanthaceae.

Census of the Queensland Flora 2010

:

5

[secondary reference]