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 Acaena

Rosaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Rosales(ordo)
Rosaceae(fam.)
Acaena(gen.)

Acaena Mutis ex L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (October 1771), Mantissa Plantarum Altera [2]

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145, 200

[tax. nov.]

Type: Acaena elongata L.

Cunningham, A. in Field, B. (ed.) (April 1825), On the botany of the Blue Mountains.

Geographical Memoirs on New South Wales

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358

[secondary reference]

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

:

433

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ancistrum J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

legitimate

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

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47

[secondary reference]

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

:

124, 125

[secondary reference]

common name:

Burs

[n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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168

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

266

[secondary reference]

Etymology: Greek akaina, a thorn: alluding to the prickles on the fruit.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

398

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Greek akaina, a thorn; alluding to the prickles on the fruit."

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1

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171

[secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

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219-220

[secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

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194

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

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174-175

[secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1

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182

[secondary reference]

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

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186

[secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Rosaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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237-238

[secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Rosaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

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208

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Rosaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

539

[secondary reference]

Jarvis, C.E., Barrie, F.R., Allan, D.M. & Reveal, J.L. (1993), A List of Linnaean Generic Names and their Types.

Regnum Vegetabile

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14

[secondary reference]

Neotype: "A. elongata L. - Neotype (designated here by Barrie): specimen labelled "Acaena", Herb. Mutis No. 774 (MA)."

Kalkman, C. (1993), Rosaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

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297-299

[secondary reference]

Orchard, A.E. (1993), Rosaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

185

[secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. & Jobson, P.C. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Rosaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

564

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Rosaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

539

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons.

Flora of the South West

:

858

[secondary reference]

Kalkman, C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Rosaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

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365, Fig. 114

[secondary reference]

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

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ancistrum J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas, HI, MI

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

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4

[secondary reference]