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 multicaulis

Rubiaceae Juss.

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

Spermacoce multicaulis Benth.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

Flora Australiensis

:

440

[tax. nov.]

Type: "N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown (with rather larger flower-heads). Queensland. Burnett river, F. Mueller; Broadsound and Bowen river, Bowman; Brisbane river, A. Cunningham."

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

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76

[secondary reference]

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

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173

[secondary reference]

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

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253

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1929), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

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1183

[secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (1958), The geographical relationships of the flora of Arnhem Land.

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

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473

[basionym]

basionym of:

Borreria multicaulis (Benth.) Specht

legitimate

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

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240

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Borreria multicaulis (Benth.) Specht

legitimate

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

327, Fig. 46L

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Borreria multicaulis (Benth.) Specht

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld