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 Comesperma praecelsum

Polygalaceae Hoffmanns. & Link

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Fabales(ordo)
Polygalaceae(fam.)
Comesperma(gen.)
praecelsum(sp.)

Comesperma praecelsum F.Muell.

, legitimate

, scientific

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1878), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 11(88)

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2

[tax. nov.]

Type: "In montibus orariis ad Rockingham's Bay; Dallachy."

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

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8

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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15

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

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44

[secondary reference]

Steenis, C.G.G.J. van (1968), Acta Botanica Neerlandica 17

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383

[basionym]

basionym of:

Bredemeyera praecelsa (F.Muell.) Steenis

legitimate

Pedley, L. (14 July 1984), A revision of Comesperma (Polygalaceae) in Queensland.

Austrobaileya

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12

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera praecelsa (F.Muell.) Steenis

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1

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42

[secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2

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45

[secondary reference]

Ford, A.J., Halford, D.A., Van Der Merwe, M & Mathieson, M.T. (17 August 2017), A revision of the tropical white-flowered species of Comesperma (Polygalaceae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

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173-174, Figs 9 (map), 13

[secondary reference]

Type: "‘In montibus orariis ad Rockingham’s Bay: Dallachy’ (syntypes: MEL 2241926, MEL 2241929, MEL 2241927, MEL 2241930, MEL 2241925, K n.v.)."

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera praecelsa (F.Muell.) Steenis

legitimate

Etymology: "The epithet praecelsum is derived from the Latin prae- (in front or very) and celsus (high, lofty), alluding to this species being the tallest of all Comesperma species."