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 Ipomoea congesta

Convolvulaceae Juss.

Ipomoea congesta 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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485

[tax. nov.]

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

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1

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601

[basionym]

basionym of:

Convolvulus congestus (R.Br.) Spreng.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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95

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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347

[secondary reference]

Ooststroom, S.J. van (1940), The Convolvulaceae of Malaysia, III: The Genus Ipomoea.

:

500-503

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Convolvulus congestus (R.Br.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ipomoea acuminata (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pharbitis insularis Choisy

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ipomoea cataractae Endl.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ipomoea insularis (Choisy) Steud.

legitimate

doubtful taxonomic synonym:

Convolvulus indicus Burm.

legitimate

Ooststroom, S.J. van (March 1953), Convolvulaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

465-466

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr.

legitimate

Meeuse, A.D.J. (1958), Bothalia 6

:

735

[secondary reference]

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

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107

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr.

legitimate

Austin, D.F. (1986), Nomenclature of the Ipomoea nil complex (Convolvulaceae).

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357

[secondary reference]

Type: "Australia. Queensland. Endeavour River. Banks & Solander in 1770 (holotype BM, n.v.; photo FAU)."

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Convolvulaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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350

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr.

legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

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307

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr.

legitimate

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Convolvulaceae.

Flora of Victoria

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370

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr.

legitimate

Bean, A.R. (26 February 2007), A new system for determining which plant species are indigenous in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

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23

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr.

legitimate

Wood, J.R.I., Muñoz-Rodríguez, P., Williams, B.R.M. & Scotland, R.W. (16 March 2020), A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World.

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432

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Ipomoea indica (Burm.) Merr.

legitimate