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 not case sensitive.
This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
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 Lychnis

Caryophyllaceae Juss.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

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436

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5

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198

[secondary reference]

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

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156

[secondary reference]

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

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44

[secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2

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68

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: Lychnis chalcedonica L.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

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360

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Greek lykhnis, from Lykhnos, a lamp; the leaves of L. coronaria were used as lamp wicks."

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

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153

[secondary reference]

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

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98

[secondary reference]

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Caryophyllaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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270

[secondary reference]

Bittrich, V. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Caryophyllaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

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233

[secondary reference]

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Caryophyllaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

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270

[secondary reference]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets.

The Electronic Flora of South Australia

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-

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: SA (doubtfully naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

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

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506

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Silene L.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Silene L.

legitimate

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

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Silene L.

legitimate