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 Cleome gynandra

Cleomaceae Bercht. & J.Presl

Cleome gynandra L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2

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671

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Asiae, Africae, Americae calidissimis."

Briquet, J.I. (1914), Decades plantarum novarum vel minus cognitarum.

Annuaire de Conservatoire & du Jardin Botaniques de Geneve

:

382

BHL

[basionym]

basionym of:

Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Briq.

legitimate

Merrill, E.D. (2 June 1923), An Enumeration of Philippine Flowering Plants 2(3)

:

209

[basionym]

basionym of:

Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Merr.

isonym

Kleinschmidt, H.E. & Johnson, R.W. (1977), Weeds of Queensland

:

417

[secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Capparaceae.

Flora of Australia

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226, map 252

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Cleome pentaphylla L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC.

legitimate

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

202

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Merr.

isonym

taxonomic synonym:

Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC.

legitimate

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

:

79

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5

:

8

[secondary reference]

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

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Capparaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

260

[secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Capparaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

169

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Cleome pentaphylla L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pedicellaria pentaphylla (L.) Schrank, Roem. & Usteri

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC.

legitimate

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Atoll Research Bulletin

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22

[secondary reference]

Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997), Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands

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53-54

[secondary reference]

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

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-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pedicellaria pentaphylla (L.) Schrank, Roem. & Usteri

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cleome pentaphylla L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC.

legitimate

APC Dist.: CoI, ChI (naturalised), AR (naturalised), NT, Qld (naturalised)

Parker, C.M. & Biggs, L.J. (1 May 2014), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2013.

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54

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

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-

BHL

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Briq.

legitimate