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 Aerva lanata

Amaranthaceae Juss.

Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult.

, legitimate

, scientific

Schultes, J.A. (1819), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 5

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564-565

BHL

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Achyranthes lanata L.

legitimate

Comment: Schultes ascribes this name to "Juss.". While A.L. de Jussieu, Annales du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle 2: 131 (1803), indicated his belief that Illecebrum lanatum (Burm.f.) Murray should be placed in the genus Aerva he did not definitely associate the genus name with the specific epithet as required by ICN Art. 35.2 (Melbourne Code, 2012).

Anonymous (1981), Annual Report for 1980/81.

Annual Report of the Botany Branch and the Queensland Herbarium

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28

[secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of Australia

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114, Fig. 36E

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Achyranthes lanata L.

legitimate

APC Dist.: CoI

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Atoll Research Bulletin

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22

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

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-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Aerva javanica (Burm.f.) Juss. ex Schult. legitimate by

Anonymous (1981), Annual Report for 1980/81.

Annual Report of the Botany Branch and the Queensland Herbarium

: 28

Hammer, T.A., Zhong, X., des Francs-Small, C.C., Nevill, P.G., Small, I.D. & Thiele, K.R. (11 July 2019), Resolving intergeneric relationships in the aervoid clade and the backbone of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae): Evidence from whole plastid genomes and morphology.

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308

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ouret lanata (L.) Kuntze

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ouret lanata (L.) Kuntze

legitimate