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 Hydrocharis dubia

Hydrocharitaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Alismatales(ordo)
Hydrocharitaceae(fam.)
Hydrocharis(gen.)
dubia(sp.)

Hydrocharis dubia (Blume) Backer

, legitimate

, scientific

Backer, C.A. (1925), Hydrocharitaceae.

Handboek voor de Flora van Java

:

64

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Pontederia dubia Blume

legitimate

Hartog, C. den (December 1957), Hydrocharitaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

394-395

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Hydrocharis morsus-ranae L.

legitimate

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia

:

228-229

[secondary reference]

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

:

20

[secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1

:

28

[secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Hydrocharitaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

11

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pontederia dubia Blume

legitimate

common name:

Frogbit

[n/a]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2

:

30

[secondary reference]

Shaffer-Fehre, M. (1991), The endotegmen tuberculae: an account of little-known structure from the seed coat of the Hydrocharitoideae (Hydrocharitaceae) and Najas (Najadaceae).

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

:

186

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Limnobium dubium (Blume) Shaffer-Fehre

legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Hydrocharitaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

13, pl. 1

[secondary reference]

common name:

Frogbit

[n/a]

Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3

:

22

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pontederia dubia Blume

legitimate

misapplication: Hydrocharis morsus-ranae L. legitimate by

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6

: 256

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Limnobium dubium (Blume) Shaffer-Fehre

legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McColl, K.A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Hydrocharitaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

22, Plate 6

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pontederia dubia Blume

legitimate

misapplication: Hydrocharis morsus-ranae L. legitimate by

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6

: 256

Bean, A.R. (1 December 2011), Hydrocharis dubia (Blume) Backer (Hydrocharitaceae) is an alien species in Australia.

Austrobaileya

:

435-436

[secondary reference]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pontederia dubia Blume

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Monochoria dubia (Blume) Miq.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Limnobium dubium (Blume) Shaffer-Fehre

legitimate

misapplication: Hydrocharis morsus-ranae L. legitimate by

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6

: 256 misapplication: Hydrocharis morsus-ranae L. legitimate by

Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia

3

: 199

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW