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 Acacia prostrata

Fabaceae Lindl.

Acacia prostrata Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd.

, legitimate

, scientific

Loddiges, C., Loddiges, G. & Loddiges, W. (1822), The Botanical Cabinet 7

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t. 631

[tax. nov.]

Type: "A native of Van Diemen's Island: we raised our plants from seeds in 1818, and they flowered two years afterwards."

common name:

Trailing Acacia

[n/a]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2

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333

BHL

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Acacia diffusa Ker Gawl.

legitimate

Court, A.B. (20 December 1972), Notes on Australian Acacias 1.

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157

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Acacia genistifolia Link

legitimate

Maslin, B.R. in Orchard, A.E. & Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2001), Flora of Australia 11A

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464

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Acacia genistifolia Link

legitimate

Maslin, B.R. (9 July 2001), Wattle - Acacias of Australia

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Acacia genistifolia Link

legitimate

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

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Acacia genistifolia Link

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Acacia genistifolia Link

legitimate

Turner, I.M. (2016), Rather for the nomenclaturist than for the scientific botanist: The Botanical Cabinet of Conrad Loddiges & Sons.

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1109

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "(designated here): [illustration] "Acacia prostrata" in Loddiges, Bot. Cab. 7: t. 631. 1822."

Turner, I.M. (2016), Rather for the nomenclaturist than for the scientific botanist: The Botanical Cabinet of Conrad Loddiges & Sons.

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1109

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Acacia genistifolia Link

legitimate

Webb, A., Ohlsen, D. & Walsh, N. (3 May 2021), A phenetic analysis of morphological variation in Acacia genistifolia (Fabaceae subf. Mimosoideae), with recognition of three subspecies.

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124

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Acacia genistifolia subsp. platyphylla A.T.Webb

legitimate