Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Rhamnaceae Juss.
Discaria pubescens ( Brongn.) 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 :
620
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Colletia pubescens Brongn.
legitimate
Willis, J.H. (1955) , The Australian Anchor plant (Discaria pubescens). The Victorian Naturalist 72 :
51-55
[secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. (1956) , The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1 :
117
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Discaria australis Hook.
nom. illeg.
common name:
Thorn-bush
[n/a]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory :
254, Fig. 250
[secondary reference]
common name:
Australian Anchor Plant
[n/a]
Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975) , Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1 :
121
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Colletia pubescens Brongn.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Discaria australis Hook.
nom. illeg.
common name:
Thorn-bush
[n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
185
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Discaria australis Hook.
nom. illeg.
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986) , Rhamnaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2 :
41, Fig. 6D
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Colletia pubescens Brongn.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Discaria australis Hook.
nom. illeg.
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 :
44
[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 :
47
[secondary reference]
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990) , Rhamnaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1 :
373
[secondary reference]
common name:
Australian Anchor plant
[n/a]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999) , Discaria. Flora of Victoria 4 :
83, Fig. 14a
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Colletia pubescens Brongn.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Discaria australis Hook.
nom. illeg.
common name:
Australian Anchor PLant
[n/a]
Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000) , Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1 :
54
[secondary reference]
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000) , Rhamnaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1 :
373
[secondary reference]
common name:
Australian Anchor Plant
[n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Colletia pubescens Brongn.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Discaria australis Hook.
nom. illeg.
taxonomic synonym:
Cryptandra spinosa G.Don
nom. inval., pro syn.
taxonomic synonym:
Solenantha spinosa G.Don
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Tetrapasma juncea G.Don
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Pomaderris oxyphylla Fenzl
nom. inval., pro syn.
taxonomic synonym:
Colletia cunninghamii Fenzl
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Cryptandra spinosa ( G.Don) Steud.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Tetrasperma juncea Steud.
orth. var.
isonym:
Discaria pubescens ( Brongn.) Domin
isonym
APC Dist.:
Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016) , Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island :
69
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Discaria australis Hook.
nom. illeg.
Kellermann, J. & Udovicic, F. (22 December 2020) , A review of Colletieae and Discaria (Rhamnaceae) in Australia. Swainsona 33 :
151, Fig. 1A-C
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Colletia pubescens Brongn.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Discaria australis Hook.
nom. illeg.
taxonomic synonym:
Tetrapasma juncea G.Don
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Cryptandra spinosa G.Don
nom. inval., pro syn.
taxonomic synonym:
Solenantha spinosa G.Don
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Pomaderris oxyphylla Fenzl
nom. inval., pro syn.
taxonomic synonym:
Colletia cunninghamii Fenzl
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Cryptandra spinosa ( G.Don) Steud.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Tetrasperma juncea Steud.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Tetraspora juncea Hook.
orth. var.
isonym:
Discaria pubescens ( Brongn.) Domin
isonym
Vernacular:
Australian anchor plant.
Kellermann, J. & Udovicic, F. (22 December 2020) , A review of Colletieae and Discaria (Rhamnaceae) in Australia. Swainsona 33 :
156
[misapplied]
misapplied to:
Discaria nitida Tortosa
legitimate
by Willis, J.H. (1955) , The Australian Anchor plant (Discaria pubescens). The Victorian Naturalist 72 : 51-55