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 Althenia cylindrocarpa

Potamogetonaceae Bercht. & J.Presl

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Alismatales(ordo)
Potamogetonaceae(fam.)
Althenia(gen.)
cylindrocarpa(sp.)

Althenia cylindrocarpa (Körn. ex Müll.Berol.) Asch.

, legitimate

, scientific

Ascherson, P.F.A. in Engler, H.G.A. & Prantl, K.A.E. (ed.) (22 February 1889), Potamogetonaceae.

Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien

:

213

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Zannichellia cylindrocarpa Körn. ex Müll.Berol.

legitimate

Comment: A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 1: 171 (1991) lists "Althenia cylindrocarpa (Walp.) Asch. ... nom. illeg. non F.Muell. (1887–88)". This seems to be an incorrect reference to F.J.H. von Mueller, Key Syst. Vict. Pl. 1: 443 (1888), where Mueller validly makes the combination Althenia preissii (Lehm.) F.Muell. There is no mention in Mueller's work of a combination “Althenia cylindrocarpa” and the Ascherson combination in 1889 is thus legitimate.

Ewart, A.J. (1931), Flora of Victoria

:

86

[secondary reference]

common name:

Slender Water-mat

[n/a]

Robertson, E.L. in Womersley, H.B S. (1984), Seagrasses.

The marine benthic flora of southern Australia

:

77

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lepilaena cylindrocarpa (Körn. ex Müll.Berol.) Benth.

legitimate

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta).

Flora of Victoria

:

158

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lepilaena cylindrocarpa (Körn. ex Müll.Berol.) Benth.

legitimate

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Lepilaena cylindrocarpa (Körn. ex Müll.Berol.) Benth. legitimate by

Ewart, A.J. (1931), Flora of Victoria

: 86

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Zannichelliaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

22

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lepilaena cylindrocarpa (Körn. ex Müll.Berol.) Benth.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lepilaena cylindrocarpa (Körn. ex Müll.Berol.) Benth.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Lepilaena cylindrocarpa (Körn. ex Müll.Berol.) Benth.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Zanichellia cylindrocarpa Müll.Berol.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Zannichellia cylindrocarpa Körn. ex Müll.Berol.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Lepilaena cylindrocarpa (Körn. ex Müll.Berol.) Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Hexatheca australis Benth.

nom. inval., pro syn.

pro parte misapplication: Lepilaena preissii (Lehm.) F.Muell. legitimate by

Black, J.M. (1948), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2 reprint, 1

: 47

APC Dist.: WA, SA, Vic, Tas

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (28 March 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2018.

:

11

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Lepilaena cylindrocarpa (Körn. ex Müll.Berol.) Benth.

legitimate