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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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 Adrastaea

Dilleniaceae Salisb.

, legitimate

, scientific

Candolle, A.P. de (1817), Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale 1

:

397, 424

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: Adrastaea salicifolia DC.

Etymology: "Generi ex Oceaniâ seu Australasiâ orto nomen mythologicum Adrasteae Oceani filiae imposui."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae.

The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria

:

13

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Hibbertia Andrews

legitimate

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

:

46-47

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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1

BHL

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Hibbertia Andrews

legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

:

28

[pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of:

Hibbertia Andrews

legitimate

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

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21

[secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II

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11

[secondary reference]

Etymology: Named after the goddess usually known as Nemesis.

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

109

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Everett, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Dilleniaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

293

[secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

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19

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Hibbertia Andrews

legitimate

Harden, G.J. & Everett, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Dilleniaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

293

[secondary reference]

Horn, J.W. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Dilleniaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

:

147

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Hibbertia Andrews

legitimate

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

:

15

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Adrastea Spreng.

orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Hibbertia Andrews

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Hibbertia Andrews

legitimate