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 Colobanthus apetalus

Caryophyllaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Caryophyllanae(superordo)
Caryophyllales(ordo)
Caryophyllaceae(fam.)
Colobanthus(gen.)
apetalus(sp.)

Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce

, legitimate

, scientific

Druce, G.C. (1917), Nomenclatorial Notes: chiefly African and Australian.

The Botanical Exchange Club and Society of the British Isles Report for 1916, Suppl. 2

:

616

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Spergula apetala Labill.

legitimate

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

230

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Colobanthus billardierei Fenzl

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

354

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Colobanthus billardierei Fenzl

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1

:

70

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Colobanthus billardierei Fenzl

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

taxonomic synonym:

Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.

legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957)

:

140

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

74

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Spergula apetala Labill.

legitimate

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

:

97

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce var. apetalus

legitimate

West, J.G. & Cowley, K.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Colobanthus.

Flora of Victoria

:

247-248, Fig. 47f

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Spergula apetala Labill.

legitimate

common name:

Coast Colobanth

[n/a]

APC Comment: Varietal rank not recognised in SA.
APC Dist.: NSW, SA, Vic, Tas

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets.

The Electronic Flora of South Australia

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Spergula apetala Labill.

legitimate

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online

:

-

[secondary reference]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census.

A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

:

29, 30

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Spergula apetala Labill.

legitimate

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

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Spergula apetala Labill.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce var. apetalus

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Colobanthus billardierei var. ß Fenzl

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Colobanthus billardierii F.Muell.

orth. var.

APC Comment: Varietal rank not recognised in SA.
APC Dist.: SA, NSW, Vic, Tas