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 Alchemilla vulgaris

Rosaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Rosales(ordo)
Rosaceae(fam.)
Alchemilla(gen.)
vulgaris(sp.)

Alchemilla vulgaris L.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

:

123

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Europae pascuis."

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), North Australian Botany.

Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany

:

246

[secondary reference]

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

:

xcv

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2

:

432

BHL

[secondary reference]

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia.

Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia

:

63

[secondary reference]

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

:

47

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3

:

4

[secondary reference]

Comment: Mueller refers to O. Brunfels (1530), which is a pre-Linnaean work.

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

:

124

[secondary reference]

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

:

571

[secondary reference]

common name:

Lady's Mantle

[n/a]

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

:

208

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Alchemilla xanthochlora Rothm. legitimate by

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

: 571

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

:

186

[pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of:

Alchemilla xanthochlora Rothm.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

APC Comment: A European taxon, recorded by F.Mueller, Hooker's J. Bot. & Kew Gard. Misc. 8: 246 (1856), J.D.Hooker, Fl. Tasman. 2: xcv (1859) and R.Tate, Trans. Proc. Roy. Soc. South Australia 3: 63 (1880), possibly in error for Alchemilla xanthochlora Rothm.