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 Lycium barbarum

Solanaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Solanales(ordo)
Solanaceae(fam.)
Lycium(gen.)
barbarum(sp.)

Lycium barbarum L.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

:

192

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Asia, Africa?"

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

:

547

[secondary reference]

Haegi, L.A.R. (1976), Taxonomic account of Lycium (Solanaceae) in Australia.

Australian Journal of Botany

:

675-677

[secondary reference]

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

:

202

[secondary reference]

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

66, Fig. 23G-H, Map 66

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Lycium chinense Mill. legitimate by

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

: 467

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

431

[secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Solanaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

351

[secondary reference]

common name:

Chinese Boxthorn

[n/a]

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

Flora of Victoria

:

362, 364, Fig. 70e

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Lycium chinense Mill. legitimate by

Ewart, A.J. (1931), Flora of Victoria

: 999

common name:

Chinese Box-thorn

[n/a]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Lycium chinense Mill. legitimate by

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

: 467 doubtful misapplication: Lycium chinense Mill. legitimate by

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

: 754

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

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

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

:

78

[secondary reference]