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 Hypericum

Hypericaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Malpighiales(ordo)
Hypericaceae(fam.)
Hypericum(gen.)

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2

:

783

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

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

:

341

[secondary reference]

Choisy, J.D. (1821), Prodromus d'une Monographie de la Famille des Hypericinees

:

37

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae.

The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria

:

193

[secondary reference]

common name:

St. John's Wort

[n/a]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

:

181

[secondary reference]

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

:

8

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1

:

4

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ascyrum L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Brathys L.f.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

14

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ascyrum L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Brathys L.f.

legitimate

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

:

49

[secondary reference]

common name:

St. John's Wort

[n/a]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2

:

529

[secondary reference]

Type: Hypericum perforatum L.

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

389

[secondary reference]

common name:

St. John's Wort

[n/a]

Etymology: "From hypericon, Greco- latin name of some plants of uncertain identity."

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3

:

578

[secondary reference]

common name:

St John's Wort

[n/a]

Etymology: "From hypericon, Greco- Latin name of some plants of uncertain identity."

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1

:

77

[secondary reference]

common name:

St John's Wort

[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

:

200

[secondary reference]

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

:

257

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

80-81

[secondary reference]

common name:

St. John's Wort

[n/a]

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

:

335, 337, 338, 339

[secondary reference]

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

:

135

[secondary reference]

Verdon, D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Guttiferae.

Flora of Central Australia

:

89

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

190-191, 193

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Perth Region

:

133

[secondary reference]

Miller, C. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Clusiaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

490

[secondary reference]

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

:

47

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ascyrum L.

legitimate

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

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

160

[secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Clusiaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

316-317

[secondary reference]

Miller, C. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Clusiaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

490

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the South West

:

562

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ascyrum L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Aseyrum F.Muell.

orth. var.

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

Stevens, P.F. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Hypericaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

:

199

[secondary reference]

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

:

424-425

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ascyrum L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Brathys L.f.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Aseyrum F.Muell.

orth. var.

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