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 Gahnia fitzgeraldii

Cyperaceae Juss.

Gahnia fitzgeraldii F.Muell. ex Rodway

, legitimate

, scientific

Rodway, L. (June 1893), Additions to Tasmanian flora, II.

Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania

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82

[tax. nov.]

Type: "... Tasmania, found in the vicinity of George's Bay by Mr. Wm. Fitzgerald."

Comment: Note the difference between the type citation given by Rodway and the lectotype chosen by Benl.

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

249

BHL

[secondary reference]

Benl, G. (1940), Die Systematik der Gattung Gahnia Forst.

Botanisches Archiv: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Botanik

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245-246

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Tasmanien: Derwent-River (L. Rodway, 1892, Typus; ML)"

Kükenthal, G. (1943), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae XIII.

Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis

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111

[basionym]

basionym of:

Gahnia microstachya var. fitzgeraldii (F.Muell. ex Rodway) Kük.

legitimate

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Gahnia.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

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134

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Gahnia microstachya Benth.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Gahnia fitzgeraldi Rodway

orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Gahnia microstachya Benth.

legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census.

A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

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85

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Gahnia microstachya Benth.

legitimate