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 Spiraeanthemum

Cunoniaceae R.Br.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Oxalidales(ordo)
Cunoniaceae(fam.)
Spiraeanthemum(gen.)

Spiraeanthemum A.Gray

, legitimate

, scientific

Gray, A. (1857), Characters of new genera of plants, mostly from Polynesia, in the collection of the United States Exploring Expedition, under Captain Wilkes.

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

:

128

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Comment: Preprint may have different pagination [= page 10?]. Index Nominum Genericorum (and Index Kewensis) give A.Gray, U.S. Explor. Exped. Bot. 1 (Jun. 1854) 666, t. 83 which is later than the preprint cited above.
Reference Note: = Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 3 (1857) 128

Mueller, F.J.H. von (March 1887), New Australian Plants (Cont'd).

The Australasian Journal of Pharmacy

:

85

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4

:

3

[secondary reference]

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

:

169

[secondary reference]

Smith, A.C. (1952), Studies of Pacific Island Plants, XII The Cunoniaceae of Fiji and Samoa.

Journal of the Arnold Arboretum

:

139

[secondary reference]

Type: Spiraeanthemum samoense A.Gray

Hopkins, H.C.F. & Hoogland, R.D. (2002), Cunoniaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

127

[secondary reference]

Hopkins, H.C.F. & Hoogland, R.D. (2002), Cunoniaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

90

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Acsmithia Hoogland

legitimate

Bradford, J.C., Fortune Hopkins, H.C. & Barnes, R.W. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Cunoniaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

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101-102, Fig. 31

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Acsmithia Hoogland

legitimate

Pillon, Y., Hopkins, H.C.F., Munzinger, J. & Chase, M.W. (2009), A molecular and morphological survey of generic limits of Acsmithia and Spiraeanthemum (Cunoniaceae).

Systematic Botany

:

146

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Acsmithia Hoogland

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Acsmithia Hoogland

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld