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 Polanisia

Cleomaceae Bercht. & J.Presl

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Brassicales(ordo)
Cleomaceae(fam.)
Polanisia(gen.)

, legitimate

, scientific

Rafinesque, C.S. (August 1819), Des nouveaux genres de plantes observes en 1817 et 1818 dans l'interieur des Etats-Unis d'Amerique.

Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts

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98

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: Polanisia graveolens Raf.

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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xlii.

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

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90-91

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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8

BHL

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Cleome L.

legitimate

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

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36

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

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241

[secondary reference]

Etymology: Greek polys, many; anisos, unequal: the stamens are many unequal in size.

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

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97

[secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (9 December 1982), Brassicaceae.

Flora of Australia

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207

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised)

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Capparaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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458

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Capparaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

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458

[secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

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686

[secondary reference]

Roalson, E.H. (15 July 2020), Nomenclatural notes in Polanisia (Cleomaceae).

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246

[secondary reference]

Type: "P. dodecandra (Linnaeus) Candolle"

Roalson, E.H. (9 April 2021), A revised synonymy, typification, and key to species of Cleome sensu stricto (Cleomaceae).

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57

[pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of:

Cleome L.

legitimate