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 scoparium

Polygalaceae Hoffmanns. & Link

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

Comesperma scoparium J.Drumm.

, legitimate

, scientific

Drummond, J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1840), XIX. Botanical Information.

The Journal of Botany

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369-370

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Text: "on a low sandhill on what was originally Mr Edjet's grant, between Mr Edjet's first residence and the river."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae.

The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria

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186-187

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

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143

[secondary reference]

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]

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse.

Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie

:

332

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

:

42

[secondary reference]

Anonymous (1923), A Census of the Plants of Victoria with their regional distribution and the vernacular names

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40

[basionym]

basionym of:

Bredemeyera scoparia (J.Drumm.) Chodat ex Anon.

legitimate

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

Flora of South Australia

:

347-348

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South Australia

:

504

[secondary reference]

Thompson, J. (1978), Polygalaceae.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series

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12

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera scoparia (J.Drumm.) Chodat ex Anon.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera scoparium Anon.

orth. var.

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

:

452

[secondary reference]

common name:

Broom Milkwort

[n/a]

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

:

106

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Polygalaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

:

471

[secondary reference]

common name:

Broom Milkwort

[n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Polygalaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

135, Fig. 24b

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera scoparia (J.Drumm.) Chodat ex Anon.

legitimate

common name:

Broom Milkwort

[n/a]

Brummitt, R.K. (February 2002), A consideration of "nomina subnuda".

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171-172

[secondary reference]

Text: "In the Committee, six said they would accept this as a valid name, while seven said they would not."

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera scoparia (J.Drumm.) Chodat ex Anon.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera scoparium Anon.

orth. var.

APC Dist.: WA, SA, Vic

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2

:

136

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Comesperma scoparia J.Drumm.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera scoparium Anon.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera scoparia (J.Drumm.) Chodat ex Anon.

legitimate

isonym:

Comesperma scoparium Steetz

isonym

APC Comment: The authorship of this name is often attributed to J.Steetz, Pl. Preiss. 2(2-3): 309 (1848) but this is later than the publication by Drummond. Drummond’s text is mostly concerned with the use of the plant as a broom but still contains enough descriptive detail of leaves, stems and flowers to distinguish the species and satisfy ICN Art. 38.1 (Melbourne Code, 2012).
APC Dist.: WA, SA, Vic