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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
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Showing Coldenia

Boraginaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Boraginaceae(fam.)
Coldenia(gen.)

, legitimate

, scientific

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

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125

[tax. nov.]

Type: Coldenia procumbens L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5

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61

[secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

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xlv.

[secondary reference]

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

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100

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Lobophyllum F.Muell.

legitimate

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

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338

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae.

Flora of South Australia

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472

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "After Cadwallader Colden, born in Scotland in 1688, doctor of medicine and botanist, who described many American plants for Linnaeus; appointed Lieutenant-Governor of New York, 1761: died there, 1776."

Johnston, I.M. (1951), Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 32

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12-14

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4

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709

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "After Cadwallader Colden, born in Scotland in 1688, doctor of medicine and botanist, who described many American plants for Linnaeus; appointed Lieutenant-Governor of New York, 1761: died there, 1776."

Craven, L.A. & Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Boraginaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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767

[secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Boraginaceae.

Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia

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139

[secondary reference]

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

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Lobophyllum F.Muell.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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

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202

[secondary reference]