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 Opercularia acolytantha

Rubiaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Gentianales(ordo)
Rubiaceae(fam.)
Opercularia(gen.)
acolytantha(sp.)

Opercularia acolytantha Diels

, legitimate

, scientific

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (14 February 1905), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse.

Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie

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547

[tax. nov.]

Type: "in distr. Eyre a sinu Esperance Bay circ. 60 km septentrionem versus in apertis aridis arenosis fruct. m. Novemb. (D. 5967)."

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

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155

[secondary reference]

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora

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137

[secondary reference]

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

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29

[secondary reference]

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

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-

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6

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-

[secondary reference]

Markey, A. (17 May 2018), By their fruit you will recognise them: species notes and typifications in Western Australian species of Opercularia (Rubiaceae: Anthosperminae).

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123-128, Figs 1C, 2A-G, 3, 4 (map)

[secondary reference]

Neotype: "Type citation: ‘Hab. in distr. Eyre a sinu Esperance Bay circ. 60km septentrionem versus in apertis aridus arenosis fruct. m. Novemb. (D. 5967).’ (holotype: B n.v., destroyed in WWII). Type: Mt Heywood, Western Australia [precise locality withheld for conservation reasons], 12 December 1992, W.R. Archer 1212926 (neo, here designated: MEL 2041551!)."

common name:

Esperance Dog Weed

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