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 Gomphrena

Amaranthaceae Juss.

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

, legitimate

, scientific

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

:

224

[tax. nov.]

Type: Not designated

Comment: For a paper on the Linnean species see J.A.Mears, Taxon 29 (1980) 85-95

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

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105

[secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

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415

[secondary reference]

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

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28

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Philoxerus R.Br.

legitimate

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2

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545

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

nom. illeg.

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

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404

[secondary reference]

Standley, P.C. (1917), North American Flora

:

147

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: Gomphrena globosa L.

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

216

[secondary reference]

Etymology: Name altered by Linnaeus from gromphaena, the Latin name of some ornamental plant.

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

Flora of South Australia

:

332

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Name altered by Linnaeus from gromphaena, the Latin name of some ornamental plant"

Backer, C.A. (December 1949), Amaranthaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

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95-97

[secondary reference]

Benl, G. (1958), Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung Munchen

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85-114

[secondary reference]

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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167

[secondary reference]

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 3

:

1877

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Xeraea Kuntze

nom. illeg.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants

:

266

[secondary reference]

George, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Amaranthaceae (except Ptilotus).

Flora of Central Australia

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84

[secondary reference]

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

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63

[secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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129, 139-140

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Lapinpuro, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

254

[secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

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330

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Philoxerus R.Br.

legitimate

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

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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113-114

[secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

118

[secondary reference]

Townsend, C.C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Amaranthaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

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89-90, Figs. 9, 10

[secondary reference]

Palmer, J. (31 March 1998), A taxonomic revision of Gomphrena (Amaranthaceae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

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78

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Xeraea Kuntze

nom. illeg.

taxonomic synonym:

Philoxerus R.Br.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), ChI (naturalised)

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Lapinpuro, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

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254

[secondary reference]

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

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-

[secondary reference]

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

:

367

[secondary reference]

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

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Gomphraena Jacq.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Xeraea Kuntze

nom. illeg.

taxonomic synonym:

Philoxerus R.Br.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)