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 Cladium elynanthoides

Cyperaceae Juss.

Cladium elynanthoides F.Muell.

, nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

, scientific

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(73)

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31

BHL

[nom. nov.]

replaced synonym:

Elynanthus australis Nees

legitimate

Comment: nom. illeg., nom. superfl., as the epithet australe was available in Cladium in 1875 and thus ought to have been adopted by Mueller (ICN Art. 52.1 (Shenzhen Code, 2018)).

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

:

409

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Elynanthus australis Nees

legitimate

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

:

128

[secondary reference]

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

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216

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Gahnia elynanthoides F.Muell.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Pfeiffer, H.H. (25 October 1926), Oreobolus R. Br., eine merkwürdige Cyperaceengattung.

Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis

:

350

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cladium australe (Nees) H.Pfeiff.

nom. illeg.

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae.

Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis

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14

[secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. (1942), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. XIII.

Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis

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177

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Gahnia elynanthoides F.Muell.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Koyama, T. (1956), Taxonomic Study of Cyperaceae V.

Botanical Magazine (Tokyo)

:

63

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Machaerina elynanthoides T.Koyama

legitimate

Wilson, K.L. (March 1980), Notes on some Australian species of Cyperaceae.

:

464

[secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. (March 1980), Notes on some Australian species of Cyperaceae.

:

464

[pro parte nomenclatural synonym]

pro parte nomenclatural synonym of:

Gahnia australis (Nees) K.L.Wilson

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Gahnia australis (Nees) K.L.Wilson

legitimate