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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Richea acerosa

Ericaceae Juss.

Richea acerosa (Lindl.) F.Muell.

, legitimate

, scientific

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1867), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(42)

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69

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Pilitis acerosa Lindl.

legitimate

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

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259

BHL

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pilitis acerosa Lindl.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Cystanthe acerosa (Lindl.) F.Muell.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875.

Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania

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86

[secondary reference]

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

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108

[secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

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125

BHL

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pilitis acerosa Lindl.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Cystanthe acerosa (Lindl.) F.Muell.

legitimate

Menadue, Y. & Crowden, R.K. (9 November 2000), Taxonomic revision of Richea R.Br. (Epacridaceae).

Australian Systematic Botany

:

779, fig. 3

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pilitis acerosa Lindl.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Cystanthe acerosa (Lindl.) F.Muell.

legitimate

APC Dist.: Tas

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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40

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pilitis acerosa Lindl.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Cystanthe acerosa (Lindl.) F.Muell.

legitimate

Venter, S. (4 January 2021), A taxonomic revision of the Australasian genera Dracophyllum and Richea (Richeeae: Styphelioideae: Ericaceae).

Australian Systematic Botany

:

169

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Dracophyllum laciniatum S.Venter

legitimate