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 Gardenia fucata

Rubiaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Gentianales(ordo)
Rubiaceae(fam.)
Gardenia(gen.)
fucata(sp.)

Gardenia fucata R.Br. ex Benth.

, legitimate

, scientific

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae.

Flora Australiensis

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410

[tax. nov.]

Type: "N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown."

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

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74

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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241

[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

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305

[secondary reference]

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

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

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260

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

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72

[secondary reference]

Brock, J. (1988), Top End Native Plants

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193

[secondary reference]

Puttock, C.F. (10 March 1997), A revision of Gardenia (Rubiaceae) from northern and north-western Australia.

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236-240, Fig. 4

APC

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: Point R [Cape Barrow, Blue Mud Bay, Groote Eylandt], Gulf of Carpentaria, Darwin and Gulf District, Northern Territory, 15 January 1803, R. Brown (lecto - here designated: BM; iso: NSW, [CANB]).

APC Dist.: NT, Qld

Etymology: The specific epithet 'fucata' , which means coloured or stained, presumably refers to the ochreous bark, a feature which is not unique to this species.

Puttock, C.F. (10 March 1997), A revision of Gardenia (Rubiaceae) from northern and north-western Australia.

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235

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Gardenia faucicola Puttock legitimate by

Brock, J. (1988), Top End Native Plants

: 193