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 Spilanthes

Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Asterales(ordo)
Asteraceae(fam.)
Spilanthes(gen.)

Spilanthes Jacq.

, legitimate

, scientific

Jacquin, N.J. von (1760), Enumeratio Systematica Plantarum

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8, 28

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), North Australian Botany.

Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany

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48

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1858), Botanical report on the north-Australian expedition under the command of A.C. Gregory Esq.

Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany

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141

[secondary reference]

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

Flora Australiensis

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541

[secondary reference]

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

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84

[secondary reference]

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

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182

[secondary reference]

Moore, A.H. (1907), Revision of the genus Spilanthes.

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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552

[secondary reference]

Type: Spilanthes urens Jacq.

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

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272

[secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II

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121

[secondary reference]

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

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86

[secondary reference]

Jansen, R.K. (1981), Systematics of Spilanthes (Compositae: Heliantheae).

Systematic Botany

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231-257

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ceratocephalus Kuntze

nom. illeg.

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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559

[secondary reference]

Orchard, A.E. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2015), Asteraceae Trib. Heliantheae Subtrib. 4. Spilanthinae.

Flora of Australia

:

546 APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ceratocephalus Kuntze

nom. illeg.

APC Dist.: Qld (formerly naturalised)

Etymology: "derivation unknown, probably from Greek spilos (blemish, stain, spot) and anthos (flower), although the allusion is obscure."