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 Spergularia

Caryophyllaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Caryophyllanae(superordo)
Caryophyllales(ordo)
Caryophyllaceae(fam.)
Spergularia(gen.)

Spergularia (Pers.) J.Presl & C.Presl

, nom. cons.

, scientific

Presl, J.S. & Presl, C.B. (1819), Flora Cechica

:

94

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Fenzl, E. in Endlicher, S.F.L., Fenzl, E., Bentham, G. & Schott, H.W. (April 1837), Paronychieae.

Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in Sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus liber baro de Hügel

:

9

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (18 September 1854), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the colony of Victoria.

Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria

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10

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae.

The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria

:

207

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

:

161-162

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Lepigonum Wahlb.

nom. superfl.

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

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27

[secondary reference]

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

:

48

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

232

[secondary reference]

Etymology: From Spergula.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

356

[secondary reference]

common name:

Sandspurry

[n/a]

Etymology: "From Spergula"

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1

:

71

[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

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152

[secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957)

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142-143

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

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74-75

[secondary reference]

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 2

:

960

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Lepigonum Wahlb.

nom. superfl.

Carolin, R.C. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Caryophyllaceae.

Flora of Central Australia

:

46

[secondary reference]

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

:

98

[secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Caryophyllaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

115

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Perth Region

:

109

[secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988.

Regnum Vegetabile

:

196

[secondary reference]

Type: Spergularia rubra (L.) Presl & C.Presl, typ. cons.

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Caryophyllaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

263-264

[secondary reference]

Bittrich, V. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Caryophyllaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

:

220-221

[secondary reference]

Adams, L.G. & West, J.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Spergularia.

Flora of Victoria

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257-258

[secondary reference]

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Caryophyllaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

263

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the South West

:

552

[secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5

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-

[secondary reference]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets.

The Electronic Flora of South Australia

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-

[secondary reference]

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

:

811

[secondary reference]

Adams, L.G., West, J.G. & Cowley, K.J. (22 October 2008), Revision of Spergularia (Caryophyllaceae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

254, 256

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Arenaria subg. Spergularia Pers.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Arenaria sect. Lepigonum Fr.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Lepigonum Wahlb.

nom. superfl.

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