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 Crotalaria retusa

Fabaceae Lindl.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Fabales(ordo)
Fabaceae(fam.)
Crotalaria(gen.)
retusa(sp.)

Crotalaria retusa L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2

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715

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in India."

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

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xliii

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1862), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 3(19)

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51

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2

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181

BHL

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), A catalogue of plants collected during Mr. Alexander Forrest's geographical exploration of North-west Australia in 1879.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales

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86

[secondary reference]

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

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38

[secondary reference]

Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales

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145

[secondary reference]

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

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119

[secondary reference]

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

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132

[secondary reference]

Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1916), A Census of New South Wales Plants

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106

[secondary reference]

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928.

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

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323

[secondary reference]

Munk, W.J. de (1962), Preliminary revision of some genera of Malaysian Papilionaceae III - a census of the genus Crotalaria.

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212-213

[secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. & Murray, L.R. (1963), Poisonous Plants of the Northern Territory

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7, 8, 12, 48, Fig. 22, 74

[secondary reference]

common name:

Rattlepod

[n/a]

common name:

Wedge-leaved Rattlepod

[n/a]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

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239

BHL

[secondary reference]

Niyomdham, C. (1978), A Revision of the genus Crotalaria Linn. (Papilionaceae) in Thailand.

Thai Forest Bulletin. Botany

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151

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "... Type from Ceylon, Hermann's Herb. folio 2: 21, (BM) - lectotype !)..."

Lee, A.T. & Thompson, J. (1984), Fabaceae.

Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales

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160

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Crotalaria spectabilis Roth legitimate by

Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales

: 145

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Crotalaria spectabilis Roth legitimate by

Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1916), A Census of New South Wales Plants

: 106

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2

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90

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

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93

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

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33

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae).

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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388, Fig. 115

[secondary reference]

common name:

Wedgeleaf Rattlepod

[n/a]

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

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62, Fig. 19

[secondary reference]

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

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Crotalaria retusa L. var. retusa

legitimate

APC Comment: Treated as Crotalaria retusa var. retusa in CoI by I.R.H.Telford, Fl. Australia 50: 236 (1993) and in Qld.
APC Dist.: WA, CoI (naturalised), NT, Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Hosking, J.R., Conn, B.J., Lepschi, B.J. & Barker, C.H. (2011), Plant species first recognised as naturalised or naturalising for New South Wales in 2004 and 2005.

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96

[secondary reference]

common name:

Wedge-leaved Rattlepod

[n/a]

Ninkaew, S., Balslev, H., Pornpongrungrueng, P. & Chantaranothai, P. (2017), Crotalaria L. (Fabaceae: Faboideae) in continental Southeast Asia.

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49, Fig. 22 (map)

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "SRI LANKA. Hermann 2: 21, No. 276 (lectotype BM000594584)."