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 Heliotropium foliatum

Boraginaceae Juss.

Heliotropium foliatum R.Br.

, legitimate

, scientific

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

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493

[tax. nov.]

Type: "(T.) v.v."

Lehmann, J.G.C. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1848), Saxifrageae.

Plantae Preissianae

:

238

BHL

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

:

398

BHL

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Heliotropium bracteatum R.Br.

legitimate

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

:

395

BHL

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Heliotropium asperrimum R.Br. legitimate by

Lehmann, J.G.C. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1848), Saxifrageae.

Plantae Preissianae

2(2-3)

: 238

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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14

[secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. & Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Boraginaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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774, Fig. 238C

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Heliotropium carpentariae Specht

legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia

:

72

[secondary reference]

Craven, L.A. (13 September 1996), A taxonomic revision of Heliotropium (Boraginaceae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

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630-631, Fig. 80 (map)

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Heliotropium carpentariae Specht

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Feuillet, C. (25 February 2016), Two new combinations in Euploca Nutt. (Heliotropiaceae, Boraginales) and a conspectus of the species of the Guiana Shield area.

:

103

[basionym]

basionym of:

Euploca foliata (R.Br.) Feuillet

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Euploca foliata (R.Br.) Feuillet

legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (21 March 2023), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2022.

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11

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Euploca foliata (R.Br.) Feuillet

legitimate

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