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 tetrandra

Cleomaceae Bercht. & J.Presl

Cleome tetrandra Banks ex DC.

, legitimate

, scientific

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1824), Capparideae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

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240

[tax. nov.]

Type: "in Novâ-Hollandiâ ... (v.s. in h. Banks.)"

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

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90

[secondary reference]

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

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4

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3

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4

[secondary reference]

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

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8

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

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36

[secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

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230

[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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236

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Australia

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228, 230

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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

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79

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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262, Fig. 74D

[secondary reference]

Barrett, R.L., Roalson, E.H., Ottewell, K., Byrne, M., Govindwar, S.P., Yadav, S.R., Tamboli, A.S. & Gholave, A.R. (27 December 2017), Resolving Generic Boundaries in Indian–Australasian Cleomaceae: Circumscription of Areocleome, Arivela, and Corynandra as Distinct Genera.

Systematic Botany

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704

[secondary reference]

Type: "AUSTRALIA. Queensland: Endeavour River, 1770, J. Banks and D. Solander s.n. (holotype: BM 000629036!)."

Barrett, R.L., Roalson, E.H., Ottewell, K., Byrne, M., Govindwar, S.P., Yadav, S.R., Tamboli, A.S. & Gholave, A.R. (27 December 2017), Resolving Generic Boundaries in Indian–Australasian Cleomaceae: Circumscription of Areocleome, Arivela, and Corynandra as Distinct Genera.

Systematic Botany

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704

[basionym]

basionym of:

Arivela tetrandra (Banks ex DC.) R.L.Barrett

legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (24 June 2021), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2020.

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8

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Arivela tetrandra (Banks ex DC.) R.L.Barrett

legitimate

Brown, G.K. (December 2021), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2020 to 2021.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2021

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8

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Arivela tetrandra (Banks ex DC.) R.L.Barrett

legitimate