Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Commelina salicifolia
Commelinaceae Mirb.
Commelina salicifolia Roxb. , legitimate, scientific
Roxburgh, W. (1820), Flora Indica; or descriptions of Indian Plants, by the late William Roxburgh 1: 176 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Found with the former in wet places near Calcutta, it is also a native of the Coromandel Coast; flowering time the wet season."
Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xlvii. [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: Listed by J.D.Hooker in the introductory essay to Fl. Tasman. xlvii (1859), but not known from Australia.