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 Cotula

Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Asterales(ordo)
Asteraceae(fam.)
Cotula(gen.)

, legitimate

, scientific

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

:

891

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

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

:

380

[secondary reference]

Persoon, C.H. (September 1807), Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum 2(2)

:

464

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae.

Flora Australiensis

:

547

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Leptinella Cass.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Strongylosperma Less.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pleiogyne K.Koch

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gymnogyne Steetz

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ctenosperma Hook.f.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Symphyomera Hook.f.

legitimate

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

:

84

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Leptinella Cass.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Stenospermum Heynh.

nom. inval., nom. nud.

taxonomic synonym:

Strongylosperma Less.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pleiogyne K.Koch

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gymnogyne Steetz

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Symphyomera Hook.f.

legitimate

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

:

5

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ctenosperma Hook.f.

legitimate

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

:

180, 190, 200

[secondary reference]

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

:

272

[secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II

:

97-98

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae.

Flora of South Australia

:

606

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "From medieval Latin cotula, derived from Greek kotile, a cup: alluding to the shape of the flowerhead."

Green, M.L. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species.

Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists

:

182

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: Cotula coronopifolia L.

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4

:

880

[secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

:

377

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

354-355

[secondary reference]

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

:

369-370

[secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia

:

63-65

[secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1

:

377

[secondary reference]

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

:

76

[secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Compositae (Asteraceae) - most genera.

Flora of Central Australia

:

382

[secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Asteraceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

568

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Perth Region

:

673-674

[secondary reference]

Brown, E.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Asteraceae p.p.

Flora of New South Wales

:

290

[secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Orchard, A.E. (1993), Asteraceae.

Flora of Australia

:

424

[secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

387

[secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Asteraceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

931-932

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the South West

:

502

[secondary reference]

Anderberg, A.A., Baldwin, B.G., Bayer, R.G., Breitwieser, I., Jeffrey, C., Dillon, M.O., Eldenäs, P., Funk, V., Garcia-Jacas, N., Hind, D.J.N., Karis, P.O., Lack, H.W., Nesom, G., Nordenstam, B., Oberprieler, C., Panero, J.J., Puttock, C., Robinson, H., Stuessy, T.F., Susanna, A., Urtubey, E., Vogt, R., Ward, J. & Watson, L.E. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Compositae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

:

351-352

[secondary reference]

Thompson, I.R. (22 May 2007), A taxonomic treatment of tribe Anthemideae (Asteraceae) in Australia.

:

46

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

:

223

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Cotyla T.Post & Kuntze

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Lancisia Fabr.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Strongylosperma Less.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Strongylospermum Benth.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Pleiogyne K.Koch

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ctenosperma Hook.f.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cotula sect. Strongylosperma (Less.) Benth.

legitimate

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

Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Subfam. Asteroideae Trib. 3. Anthemideae.

Flora of Australia

:

359

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Strongylosperma Less.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pleiogyne K.Koch

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gymnogyne Steetz

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ctenosperma Hook.f.

legitimate

Etymology: "from the Greek cotyle (small cup), alluding to the shape of the involucre."