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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
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Showing Solanum melanospermum

Solanaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Solanales(ordo)
Solanaceae(fam.)
Solanum(gen.)
melanospermum(sp.)

Solanum melanospermum F.Muell.

, legitimate

, scientific

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1861), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(16)

:

163

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Ad ripas fluminis Abel Tasman's River."

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

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96

[secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (1960), Contributions to the Flora of Central Australia.

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

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202

[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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257

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

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262

[secondary reference]

Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

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274-276, Figs 123, 157G, 167M-N, Map 9

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "The sheet MEL 12085 ... is selected here as the lectotype"

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae.

Flora of Australia

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165, 167, Figs 25J, 32B, Map 172

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: NT

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

165

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Solanum chippendalei Symon legitimate by

Chippendale, G.M. (1960), Contributions to the Flora of Central Australia.

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

83

: 202

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

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149

[secondary reference]

Comment: Appears in square brackets and italics as an "erroneous record".

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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76

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J., Latz, P.K., Barritt, M.J., Cowie, I.D. & Albrecht, D.E. (1995), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory

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104

[secondary reference]