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 Taraxacum

Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Asterales(ordo)
Asteraceae(fam.)
Taraxacum(gen.)

Taraxacum F.H.Wigg.

, nom. cons.

, scientific

Wiggers, F.H. (1780), Primitiae Florae Holsaticae

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56

[tax. nov.]

Type: Taraxacum officinale F.H.Wigg.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony.

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

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15

[secondary reference]

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

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277

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South Australia

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660

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "From Arabic tarakhshaquq, probably of Persian origin and first introduced into medieval Latin as tarasacon."

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

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941

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "From Arabic tarakhshaquq or tarakhshaqun, probably of Persian origin and first introduced into medieval Latin as tarasacon."

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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395

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

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387

[secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

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396

[secondary reference]

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

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1025

[secondary reference]

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

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87

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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593

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Perth Region

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708

[secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988.

Regnum Vegetabile

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285

[secondary reference]

Comment: nom. cons. vs Taraxacum Zinn. (nom. rej.)

Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Taraxacum.

Flora of New South Wales

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337

[secondary reference]

Scarlett, N.H. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Taraxacum.

Flora of Victoria

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688-689

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the South West

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530

[secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A., Baldwin, B.G., Bayer, R.G., Breitwieser, I., Jeffrey, C., Dillon, M.O., Eldenäs, P., Funk, V., Garcia-Jacas, N., Hind, D.J.N., Karis, P.O., Lack, H.W., Nesom, G., Nordenstam, B., Oberprieler, C., Panero, J.J., Puttock, C., Robinson, H., Stuessy, T.F., Susanna, A., Urtubey, E., Vogt, R., Ward, J. & Watson, L.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Compositae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

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186

[secondary reference]

Thompson, I.R. (22 May 2007), A taxonomic treatment of tribe Lactuceae (Asteraceae) in Australia.

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69

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

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842

[secondary reference]

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

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Comment: Taxonomy of introduced apomictic Taraxacum in Australia is not well understood. The name Taraxacum officinale F.H.Wigg. has been applied (in the sense of a species aggregate) to these taxa, but defined taxonomic limits and appropriate nomenclature is lacking for Australian plants. Victorian plants are discussed in detail by N.H.Scarlett, Fl. Vic. 4: 688-694 (1999).
APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised)

Scarlett, N.H. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Taraxacum.

Flora of Australia

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95-97

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "from the latinised form of the Persian name tarkhashqun for plants of the genus."