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 Nesaea striatiflora

Lythraceae J.St.-Hil.

Nesaea striatiflora Hewson

, legitimate

, scientific

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Appendix: Lythraceae.

Flora of Australia

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322

[tax. nov.]

Type: "7.8 km N of Mitchell River Stn on Gibb River to Kalumburu road, W.A., 9 June 1987, D.J.Edinger 334; holo: PERTH."

APC Dist.: WA, NT

Etymology: "Named from the Latin stria (groove, line) and flos (flower) in reference to the prominent maroon ribs and white membranous grooves of the hypanthium."

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

Flora of Australia

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107, Fig. 34, Map 158

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lythraceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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494

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2

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133, Fig. 41

[secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia

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106, Fig. 20

[secondary reference]

Graham, S.A.T. & Gandhi, K. (2013), Nomenclatural changes resulting from the transfer of Nesaea and Hionanthera to Ammannia (Lythraceae).

Harvard Papers in Botany

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84

[basionym]

basionym of:

Ammannia striatiflora (Hewson) S.A.Graham & Gandhi

legitimate

Barrett, R.L. (1 May 2014), Ammannia fitzgeraldii, a nom. nov. for Nesaea repens (Lythraceae).

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102

[secondary reference]

Text: "S.A. Graham and K. Gandhi, Harvard Papers in Botany 18: 84 (2013) cite the holotype for this species as '(UWA [1604589])'. This is an error for PERTH sheet 1604589. This specimen was never held at UWA."

Parker, C.M. (10 March 2015), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2014.

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21

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ammannia striatiflora (Hewson) S.A.Graham & Gandhi

legitimate