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 Cotoneaster microphyllus

Rosaceae Juss.

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

Cotoneaster microphyllus Wall. ex Lindl.

, legitimate

, scientific

Lindley, J. (1828), The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment 13

:

t. 1114

[tax. nov.]

Type: "... is a native of Nepal, whence seeds have, at several different times, been sent by Dr. Wallich to the gardens of this country. We first remarked it in the Garden of the Horticultural Society; it next occurred to us in the Nursery of Mr. Miller, of Bristol; ... Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society in June last, ..."

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

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186

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Malaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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544

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1

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77

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Malaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

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544

[secondary reference]

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Cotoneaster microphylla Lindl.

orth. var.

APC Dist.: SA (doubtfully naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Byng, J.W. (9 February 2018), GLOVAP Nomenclature Part 1.

The Global Flora: a practical flora to vascular plant species of the world

:

112

[basionym]

basionym of:

Pyrus microphylla (Wall. ex Lindl.) M.F.Fay & Christenh.

legitimate

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Cotoneaster microphylla Lindl.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Pyrus microphylla (Wall. ex Lindl.) M.F.Fay & Christenh.

legitimate

APC Dist.: SA (doubtfully naturalised), NSW (naturalised)