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 virgatum

Polygalaceae Hoffmanns. & Link

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

Comesperma virgatum Labill.

, legitimate

, scientific

Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1806), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 2(16)

:

21, t. 159

[tax. nov.]

Type: "in terrâ Van-Leuwin."

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

:

8

[secondary reference]

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

:

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

:

333

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

:

383

[basionym]

basionym of:

Bredemeyera virgata (Labill.) Steenis

legitimate

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

:

471-472, Fig. 180

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons.

Flora of the South West

:

799

[secondary reference]

common name:

Milkwort

[n/a]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Comesperma virgata Labill.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Comesperma virgatum Labill. var. virgatum

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Bredemeyera virgata (Labill.) Steenis

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma simplex Endl.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Comosperma laxiuscula Steud.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma laxiusculum Steud.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma contracta Steud.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma contractum Steud.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma aemula Steud.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma aemulum Steud.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma rosea Steud.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma roseum Steud.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma longibracteata Steud.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma longebracteatum Steud.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma corniculata Steud.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma corniculatum Steud.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma virgatum var. contracta Steetz

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma virgatum var. contractum (Steud.) Steetz

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma virgatum var. longebracteata Steetz

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma virgatum var. longebracteatum (Steud.) Steetz

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma virgatum var. simplex (Endl.) Steetz

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Comesperma virgatum var. corniculatum Domin

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA

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

:

136-137, photos 11-12

[secondary reference]

common name:

Milkwort

[n/a]