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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Staurogyne leptocaulis

Acanthaceae Juss.

Staurogyne leptocaulis Bremek.

, legitimate

, scientific

Bremekamp, C.E.B. (1957), A new Staurogyne (Scrophulariaceae) and some new Acanthaceae from New Guinea.

Nova Guinea. New Series

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129

[tax. nov.]

Type: "South New Guinea: distr. Merauke, Merau River, near Kema, alt. 30 m, VAN ROYEN 4678, type; ibid., near Kumbe village, id. 4855."

Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

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61-64

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

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4

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5

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13

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Staurogyne glauca (Nees) Kuntze legitimate by

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

: 152

Barker, R.M. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Acanthaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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853-855, Fig. 264A

[secondary reference]

Daniel, T.F. & McDade, L.A. (2014), Nelsonioideae (Lamiales: Acanthaceae): Revision of genera and catalog of species.

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39

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Staurogyne spatulata (Blume) Koord.

legitimate

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

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Staurogyne spatulata (Blume) Koord.

legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021.

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10

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Staurogyne spatulata (Blume) Koord.

legitimate