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 major

Plantaginaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Lamiales(ordo)
Plantaginaceae(fam.)
Plantago(gen.)
major(sp.)

Plantago major L.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

:

112

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Europa ad vias."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Third systematic index of the plants of Victoria.

Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly

:

9

[secondary reference]

Woolls, W. (1867), Notes on introduced plants occurring in the neighbourhood of Sydney.

Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany

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38

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names.

Key to the System of Victorian Plants

:

534

[secondary reference]

Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales

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236

[secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

153

BHL

[secondary reference]

Brown, R. in Britten, J. (1906), Plantae introductae vicinitatis Portus Jackson, in Introduced Plants at Sydney, 1802-4.

Journal of Botany, British and Foreign

:

234

[secondary reference]

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

:

211

[secondary reference]

common name:

Plantain

[n/a]

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

:

396

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae.

Flora of South Australia

:

533

[secondary reference]

common name:

Greater Plantain

[n/a]

Pilger, R.K.F. in Engler, H.G.A. (1937), Das Pflanzenreich 102

:

41-56

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4

:

793

[secondary reference]

common name:

Greater Plantain

[n/a]

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

:

361

[secondary reference]

common name:

Large Plantain

[n/a]

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

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

559

[secondary reference]

common name:

Great Plantain

[n/a]

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2

:

604

[secondary reference]

common name:

Greater Plantain

[n/a]

Briggs, B.G., Carolin, R.C. & Pulley, J.M. (1977), Plantaginaceae.

Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales

:

9-10

[secondary reference]

common name:

Large Plantain

[n/a]

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

:

175

[secondary reference]

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

:

154

[secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales.

Plant Protection Quarterly

:

140

[secondary reference]

common name:

Greater plantain

[n/a]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Plantaginaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

470

[secondary reference]

common name:

Greater Plantain

[n/a]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Plantaginaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

:

569

[secondary reference]

common name:

Greater Plantain

[n/a]

Brown, M.J. in Banks, M.R., Smith, S.J., Orchard, A.E. & Kantvilas, G. (ed.) (1991), A synopsis of the genus Plantago L. in Tasmania.

Aspects of Tasmanian Botany - a tribute to Winifred Curtis

:

66

[secondary reference]

Briggs, B.G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Plantaginaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

595

[secondary reference]

Green, P.S. (1993), Plantaginaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

374-375

[secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

324-325

[secondary reference]

common name:

Plantain

[n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

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310

[secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Plantaginaceae.

Flora of Victoria

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467, Fig. 91g

[secondary reference]

common name:

Greater Plantain

[n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons.

Flora of the South West

:

796

[secondary reference]

common name:

Greater Plantain

[n/a]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Plantago cornuti Gouan

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Plantago major var. cornuti (Gouan) F.M.Bailey

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Plantago major var. cornutii A.D.Chapm.

orth. var.

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2

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336-337, photos 9-12

[secondary reference]

common name:

Greater Plantain

[n/a]

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

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

:

62

[secondary reference]