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 Ptilotus gardneri

Amaranthaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Caryophyllanae(superordo)
Caryophyllales(ordo)
Amaranthaceae(fam.)
Ptilotus(gen.)
gardneri(sp.)

Ptilotus gardneri Benl

, legitimate

, scientific

Benl, G. (25 May 1976), Ptilotus gardneri Benl sp. nov. (Amaranthaceae).

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93-95, Figs 1, 2

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Western Australia Boundary Survey 1936–38. Low plant in rough limestone country. Lat. 17°30′5"; L. Stokes, 10 June 1936 (PERTH)."

Etymology: "This plant is named in honour of the late Mr. Charles A Gardner, formally Government Botanist of Western Australia in Perth, who not only collected many Ptilotus specimens but also recognised several taxa as new."

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

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73

[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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6

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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128, Fig. 32F

[secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5

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-

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA, NT

Lally, T.R. (9 May 2013), Review of infraspecific taxa in Ptilotus gardneri and P. lophotrichus and lectotypification of P. conicus (Amaranthaceae).

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125

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ptilotus gardneri var. inermis Benl

legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Biggs, L.J. (1 May 2014), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2013.

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59

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ptilotus gardneri Benl var. gardneri

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ptilotus gardneri var. inermis Benl

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT