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 Persicaria capitata

Polygonaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Caryophyllanae(superordo)
Caryophyllales(ordo)
Polygonaceae(fam.)
Persicaria(gen.)
capitata(sp.)

Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross

, legitimate

, scientific

Gross, H. (1913), Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 49

:

277

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Polygonum capitatum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Lapinpuro, L. (24 April 1986), Alterations to the census of New South Wales plants.

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712

[secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Polygonaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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281

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Polygonum capitatum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

legitimate

Forster, P.I. (16 December 1997), Notes on the naturalised Flora of Queensland, 3.

Austrobaileya

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118

[secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Polygonaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

281

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Polygonum capitatum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

legitimate

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Polygonum capitatum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Polygonum capitatum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census.

A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

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63

[secondary reference]