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 Plantago brownii

Plantaginaceae Juss.

Plantago brownii Rapin

, nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

, scientific

Rapin, D. (1827), Mémoires de la Société linnéenne de Paris 6

:

484

[nom. nov.]

replaced synonym:

Plantago carnosa R.Br.

nom. illeg.

Comment: nom. illeg., nom. superfl., non Plantago triantha Spreng. (1824).

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5

:

142

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875.

Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania

:

88

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

91

[secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

153

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Plantago paradoxa Hook.f.

legitimate

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

563

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Plantago triantha Spreng.

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Plantago triantha Spreng.

legitimate

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

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Plantago muelleri Pilg. legitimate by

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5

: 142

Meudt, H.M. (2012), A taxonomic revision of native New Zealand Plantago (Plantaginaceae).

New Zealand Journal of Botany

:

130

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Plantago triantha Spreng.

legitimate

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

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Plantago muelleri Pilg. legitimate by

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5

: 142

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census.

A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

:

62

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Plantago triantha Spreng.

legitimate

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