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 Spermacoce laevigata

Rubiaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Gentianales(ordo)
Rubiaceae(fam.)
Spermacoce(gen.)
laevigata(sp.)

Spermacoce laevigata F.Muell.

, legitimate

, scientific

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1863), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(25)

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41

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Ad fluminis Victoriae ripas petraeas vel graminosas. F.M."

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

Flora Australiensis

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442

[secondary reference]

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

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76

[secondary reference]

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

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253, Fig. 229

[secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

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303

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Borreria geeingwa Specht

legitimate

Specht, R.L. (1962), The nomenclature of some Borreria species from Northern Australia.

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240

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Borreria geeingwa Specht var. geeingwa

legitimate

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

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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926-928, Fig. 285F

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Borreria geeingwa Specht

legitimate

Forster, P.I. & Halford, D.A. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Rubiaceae.

Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens

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177

[secondary reference]

Harwood, R. & Dessein, S. (20 May 2005), Australian Spermacoce (Rubiaceae: Spermacoceae). 1 Northern Territory.

Australian Systematic Botany

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344, Figs 2D-E, 8D, 16A-C, 26

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: Upper Victoria River [NT], F. Mueller; K.

nomenclatural synonym:

Borreria geeingwa Specht

legitimate

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

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Borreria geeingwa Specht var. geeingwa

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Borreria geeingwa Specht

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6

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-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Borreria geeingwa Specht

legitimate