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 Adiantum capillus-veneris

Pteridaceae E.D.M.Kirchn.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Polypodiidae(subcl.)
Pteridaceae(fam.)
Adiantum(gen.)
capillus-veneris(sp.)

Adiantum capillus-veneris L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2

:

1096

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Europa australi."

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

:

723

[secondary reference]

Pichi Sermolli, R.E.G. (1957), Adumbratio Florae Aethiopicae 5. Parkeriaceae, Adiantaceae, Vittariaceae.

Webbia; raccolta di scritti botanici

:

678-685. Figs. 8, 9

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Specimen 1252.9 of the Linnean Herbarium (LINN!)."

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia

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4

[secondary reference]

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

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25

[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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1

[secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants.

Flora of Victoria

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47, Fig. 10c

[secondary reference]

Bostock, P.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Adiantaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

255, Fig. 103, Map 225

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Adiantum affine Willd.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Adiantum diaphanum var. affine (Willd.) Alderw.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, Vic (uncertain origin)

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue

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21

[secondary reference]

Short, P., Dixon, D. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2003), A review of the ferns and fern allies of the Northern Territory.

The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory

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43, Fig. 13C, D, map

[secondary reference]

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I.

Australian Systematic Botany

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43

[secondary reference]

Type: "s. loc., C. Magnol s.n. (lecto: LINN 1252.9*)"

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