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 Pternandra coerulescens

Melastomataceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Myrtales(ordo)
Melastomataceae(fam.)
Pternandra(gen.)
coerulescens(sp.)

Pternandra coerulescens Jack

, legitimate

, scientific

Jack, W. (1822), Descriptions of Malayan plants.

Malayan Miscellanies

:

61

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Native of Pulo Pinang."

Whiffin, T.P. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Melastomataceae.

Flora of Australia

:

252, Fig 88, Map 350

APC

[secondary reference]

Neotype: "Penang, Malaysia, Wallich 4077; neo: K n.v., fide J.F.Maxwell, Gard. Bull. Singapore 34: 33 (1981)"

taxonomic synonym:

Pternandra cyanea (Blume) Triana

legitimate

APC Dist.: NT, Qld

Christophel, D.C. & Hyland, B.P.M. in Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Leaf Atlas of Australian Tropical Rain Forest Trees.

Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system

:

10, 38, 143, pl. 81(d), Code 882

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 1

:

109, 122, 181, Code 882

[secondary reference]

common name:

Cursed Shade

[n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 2

:

235, Code 882

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

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306

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs.

Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs

:

72

[secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

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283

[secondary reference]

common name:

Cursed Shade

[n/a]