Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Gymnema muelleri
Apocynaceae Juss.
Gymnema muelleri Benth. , legitimate, scientific
Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 343 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "N. Australia. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 94 [secondary reference]
Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 254 BHL [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 141 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 9 [secondary reference]
Forster, P.I. (25 October 1995), Circumscription of Marsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae), with a revision of the genus in Australia and Papuasia. Australian Systematic Botany 8(5): 812 [secondary reference]
  • Type: "Northern Territory: Tableland of the Upper Victoria River, F. Mueller s.n., Jan. 1856 (holo: MEL (1515818); iso: BRI (AQ333085))."
Forster, P.I. (25 October 1995), Circumscription of Marsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae), with a revision of the genus in Australia and Papuasia. Australian Systematic Botany 8(5): 812 [basionym]
basionym of: Marsdenia muelleri (Benth.) P.I.Forst. legitimate
Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28: 254 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Marsdenia muelleri (Benth.) P.I.Forst. legitimate
Forster, P.I. (24 March 2021), Gymnema R.Br. and Leichhardtia R.Br. (Apocynaceae), reinstated genera for taxa previously included in Marsdenia R.Br.: a conspectus for Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Austrobaileya 11: 4 APC [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "Australia. Northern Territory: [Tableland of the] Upper Victoria River, January 1856, F. Mueller s.n. (lecto [here designated]: K 000873008 i.d.v.; isolecto: BRI [AQ333085], K 000873009 i.d.v., MEL 1515818)."
nomenclatural synonym: Marsdenia muelleri (Benth.) P.I.Forst. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: NT, Qld
  • Text: "For the 1995 revision I only saw material from BRI and MEL. The sheet at MEL bears an ‘isotype’ label and I regarded this incorrectly as the holotype (Forster 1995b). There are two excellent sheets at K that were all seen and annotated by Bentham, unlike both the BRI and MEL sheets that are quite sparse, although fertile. The BRI sheet bears a label in S.T. Blake’s handwriting indicating that it was separated from the MEL material (undoubtedly a kleptotype, sanctioned or otherwise!). The name requires lectotypification and this is made based on the best of the two sheets at K. The specimens K 000873008 and K 000873009 (designated here as the lectotype and an isolectotype respectively) have ‘Upper Victoria River’ and ‘Jan 1856. Ferd Mueller’ in Mueller’s hand on a label and both have the label ‘FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS. Named by Mr. Bentham.’ and Bentham’s annotation ‘Vol IV. Page 343.’. Both the BRI and MEL sheets have the locality information ‘Tableland of the Upper Victoria River’; however, are clearly part of the type collection."
Brown, G.K. (December 2021), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2020 to 2021. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2021: 7 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Marsdenia muelleri (Benth.) P.I.Forst. legitimate