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 suffruticosa

Rubiaceae Juss.

Gardenia suffruticosa 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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306

[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]

Puttock, C.F. (12 October 1989), Kailarsenia Tirvengadum emend. Puttock (Rubiaceae: Gardenieae) in Australia.

Austrobaileya

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59

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Northern Territory. DARWIN AND GULF: Point S, Gulf of Carpentaria, 28 january 1803, Brown [3455], (lecto (here designated): BM(fruiting element on left of sheet); isolecto: K, two sheets)."

Puttock, C.F. (12 October 1989), Kailarsenia Tirvengadum emend. Puttock (Rubiaceae: Gardenieae) in Australia.

Austrobaileya

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59

[basionym]

basionym of:

Kailarsenia suffruticosa (R.Br. ex Benth.) Puttock

legitimate

Tirvengadum, D.D. (1993), Larsenaikia, a new genus of the Rubiaceae from Australia.

Nordic Journal of Botany

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181

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Larsenaikia suffruticosa Tirveng.

nom. inval.

Govaerts, R.H.A. (29 November 2018), 101 nomenclatural corrections in preparation for the Plants of the World Online (POWO).

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84

[basionym]

basionym of:

Larsenaikia suffruticosa (R.Br. ex Benth.) Govaerts

legitimate