Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Aneilema esculentum
Commelinaceae Mirb.
Aneilema esculentum C.B.Clarke , legitimate, scientific
Clarke, C.B. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. & Candolle, A.C.P. (1881), Commelinaceae. Monographiae Phanerogamarum 3: 206 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Madras; in oryzetis (Wallich; Wight n. 2843). Zeylania (Walker). Hongkong (Hance)? Australia (R. Brown n. 5737 partim)." "Wall.! Cat. 5208"
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: An Asian taxon, now referred to Murdannia esculenta (Wall. ex C.B.Clarke) R.S.Rao & Kammathy, erroneously recorded for Australia by C.B.Clarke in A.C.P.de Candolle & A.L.P.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 3: 206 (1881) (fide M.D.Dassanayake, F.R.Fosberg & W.D.Clayton, Rev. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 14: 154 (2000)).