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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
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You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Commelina lanceolata

Commelinaceae Mirb.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Commelinales(ordo)
Commelinaceae(fam.)
Commelina(gen.)
lanceolata(sp.)

Commelina lanceolata R.Br.

, legitimate

, scientific

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

:

269

[tax. nov.]

Type: "(T.) v.v."

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

:

84

[secondary reference]

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

:

122

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

509

[secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. & Davies, O.B. (1917), The Flora of the Northern Territory

:

69

[secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

:

213

[secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

:

227

[secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Commelinceae,Eriocaulaceae, Centrolepidaceae.

Flora of Central Australia

:

427

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Commelina cyanea R.Br.

legitimate

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

:

47

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

21

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5

:

3

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Commelina cyanea R.Br. legitimate by

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

: 47

Forster, P.I. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (2007), Commelinaceae.

Census of the Queensland Flora 2007

:

50

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: Qld

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Commelina ciliata Stanley legitimate by

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

: 47

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Commelina agrostophylla F.Muell. legitimate by

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

: 84

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Commelina agrostophylla F.Muell. legitimate by

Ewart, A.J. & Davies, O.B. (1917), The Flora of the Northern Territory

: 69

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Commelina agrostophylla F.Muell. legitimate by

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

96(4)

: 227

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Commelina agrostophylla F.Muell. legitimate by

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

26

: 21