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 Lythrum

Lythraceae J.St.-Hil.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Myrtales(ordo)
Lythraceae(fam.)
Lythrum(gen.)

, legitimate

, scientific

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

:

446

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

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

:

205

[secondary reference]

Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis.

A Voyage to Terra Australis

2, Appendix III

:

-

[secondary reference]

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

Flora Australiensis

:

298-300

[secondary reference]

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

:

49

[secondary reference]

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

:

214

[secondary reference]

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

:

580

[secondary reference]

Type: Lythrum salicaria L.

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

Flora of South Australia

:

401

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Greek lythron, gore: a name attributed to some plant by Dioscorides."

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

:

599

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Greek lythron, gore: a name attributed to some plant by Dioscorides."

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

:

172

[secondary reference]

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

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

225-226

[secondary reference]

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

:

262

[secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. (15 October 1976), A summary of the family Lythraceae in the Northern Territory (with additional comments on Australian material).

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

:

58

[secondary reference]

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

:

630, 631

[secondary reference]

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

:

142

[secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Lythraceae.

Flora of Central Australia

:

234

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

116

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Perth Region

:

366

[secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Lythrum.

Flora of Australia

:

100-104

[secondary reference]

Highet, J. & Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Lythraceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

199

[secondary reference]

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

:

323

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Peplis L.

legitimate

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

Flora of Australia

:

200

[secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Lythraceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

910

[secondary reference]

Lepschi, B.J. (1 August 2000), A review of the genus Lythrum (Lythraceae) in Western Australia, including typification of L. paradoxum.

:

274

BHL

[secondary reference]

Highet, J. & Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Lythraceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

234

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the South West

:

661

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Peplis L.

legitimate

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

Graham, S.A.T. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Lythraceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

:

241, Fig. 82C

[secondary reference]

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

:

508

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Peplis L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Lythrum sect. Euhyssopifolia Koehne

nom. inval.

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

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