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 Pterocaulon sphacelatum

Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Asterales(ordo)
Asteraceae(fam.)
Pterocaulon(gen.)
sphacelatum(sp.)

Pterocaulon sphacelatum (Labill.) Benth. ex F.Muell.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

:

79, 142

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Monenteles sphacelatus Labill.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Monenteles intermedius DC.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Monenteles globifer DC.

legitimate

Comment: Mueller attributes the name to "Bentham & J. Hooker, gen. plant. II, 94 (1873)". While G.Bentham in G.Bentham & J.D.Hooker, Gen. Pl. 2: 294 (1873), indicates that the name Monenteles had been applied to Australian species of Pterocaulon he does not make the required combination at specific rank.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1

:

5

[secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

:

187

[alternative name]

alternative name:

Monenteles sphacelatus Labill.

legitimate

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

:

266

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Monenteles sphacelatus Labill.

legitimate

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II

:

94

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae.

Flora of South Australia

:

619

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1930), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

1218

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Monenteles sphacelatus Labill.

legitimate

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

:

895-896

[secondary reference]

common name:

Apple-bush

[n/a]

Bateman, W. & Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Some ecological and systematic notes on the vegetation near Mt. Marumba in the centre of Arnhem Land.

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

:

331

[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

:

314

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Monenteles sphacelatus Labill.

legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

:

265

BHL

[secondary reference]

Cabrera, A.L. & Ragonese, A.M (1978), Revision del genero Pterocaulon (Compositae).

:

245-249

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Monenteles globifer DC.

legitimate

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales

:

685

[secondary reference]

common name:

Applebush

[n/a]

common name:

Fruit-salad Plant

[n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

84

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Monenteles sphacelatus Labill.

legitimate

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera.

Flora of Central Australia

:

410, Fig. 527

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Monenteles sphacelatus Labill.

legitimate

common name:

Apple bush

[n/a]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2

:

238

[secondary reference]

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

:

169

[secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

529, Fig. 74F

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Monenteles sphacelatus Labill.

legitimate

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

12

[secondary reference]

Porteners, M.F. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Pterocaulon.

Flora of New South Wales

:

204

[secondary reference]

common name:

Applebush

[n/a]

Wilson, A.J.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Minuria - Xanthium.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

953, Fig. 289D

[secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia

:

67

[secondary reference]

common name:

Woolly Tobacco

[n/a]

Vernacular: ngalil (Bardi)

Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia

:

126 (photo, map)

[secondary reference]

common name:

Fruit Salad Plant

[n/a]

common name:

Apple Bush

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Pterocaulon sphacelatus F.Muell.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Monenteles sphacelatus Labill.

legitimate

misapplication: Pterocaulon sphaeranthoides (DC.) F.Muell. legitimate by

Holland, A.E. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (2007), Asteraceae.

Census of the Queensland Flora 2007

: 30

APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

Bean, A.R. (1 December 2011), A taxonomic revision of Pterocaulon section Monenteles (Labill.) Kuntze (Asteraceae: Inuleae-Plucheinae).

Austrobaileya

:

314-317, Figs 2A, 16E-H, 17, Map 8

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Monenteles sphacelatus Labill.

legitimate

Bean, A.R. (1 December 2011), A taxonomic revision of Pterocaulon section Monenteles (Labill.) Kuntze (Asteraceae: Inuleae-Plucheinae).

Austrobaileya

:

291

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Pterocaulon ciliosum A.R.Bean legitimate by

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

2

: 529, Fig. 74F

Bean, A.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Pterocaulon.

Flora of Australia

:

394-395, map

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Monenteles sphacelatus Labill.

legitimate

common name:

Apple Bush

[n/a]

common name:

Fruit Salad Plant

[n/a]

Turner, I.M. (2016), Species names attributed to Bentham & Hooker's Genera Plantarum.

Annales Botanici Fennici

:

316

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Monenteles sphacelatus Labill.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Pterocaulon sphacelatus F.Muell.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Monenteles sphacelatus Labill.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Monenteles intermedius DC.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Monenteles globiferus DC.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Monenteles globifer DC.

legitimate

misapplication: Pterocaulon sphaeranthoides (DC.) F.Muell. legitimate by

Holland, A.E. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (2007), Asteraceae.

Census of the Queensland Flora 2007

: 30

Moxham, C., Stajsic, V., Kenny, S.A., Bennetts, K., Sutter, G., Sluiter, I. & Cameron, D. (24 April 2019), Pluchea rubelliﬂora and Pterocaulon sphacelatum (Asteraceae): new to Victoria’s semi-arid ﬂoodplains.

:

123, Fig. 1b

BHL

[secondary reference]