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.
Showing Acaena australis
- APC
- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Rosanae(superordo)
- Rosales(ordo)
- Rosaceae(fam.)
- Acaena(gen.)
- australis(sp.)
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Text: "Is this Australian?"
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APC Comment: A South American taxon, now referred to Acaena sericea J.Jacq., but not known to occur in Australia. Recorded by A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 25 (1991), with a query "Is this Australian?" but the type locality given for Salisbury's basionym is "Port Desire" [Puerto Deseado, Argentina].