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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The query is not case sensitive.
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."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Elatine americana

Elatinaceae Dumort.

Elatine americana (Pursh) Arn.

, legitimate

, scientific

Arnott, G.A.W. (1830), Edinburgh Journal of Natural and Geographic Science 1

:

431

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Peplis americana Pursh

legitimate

Hooker, J.D. (1852), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae 1(1)

:

27

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae.

The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria

:

195

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Elatine minima (Nutt.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey.

legitimate

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

:

178-179

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Elatine minima (Nutt.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Elatine gratioloides A.Cunn.

legitimate

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia.

Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia

:

55

[secondary reference]

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

:

8

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

14

BHL

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1899), The Queensland Flora 1

:

199

[secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

15

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Elatine minima (Nutt.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey.

legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

:

41

[secondary reference]

Backer, C.A. (December 1951), Elatinaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

206

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Elatine triandra Schkuhr

legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Elatinaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

314

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Elatine gratioloides A.Cunn.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Elatine gratioloides A.Cunn. legitimate by

Hooker, J.D. (1852), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae 1(1)

: 27

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Elatine gratioloides A.Cunn. legitimate by

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia.

Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia

3

: 55

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Elatine gratioloides A.Cunn. legitimate by

Bailey, F.M. (1899), The Queensland Flora 1

: 199

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census.

A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

:

36

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Elatine gratioloides A.Cunn. legitimate by

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

: 178-179