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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The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
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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 Merremia quinata

Convolvulaceae Juss.

Merremia quinata (R.Br.) Ooststr.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

Flora Malesiana Series I

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447

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Ipomoea quinata R.Br.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ipomoea hirsuta R.Br.

nom. illeg.

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

:

285

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ipomoea quinata R.Br.

legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

:

255

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

:

142

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

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22

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. & Marchant, N.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Convolvulaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

754-755, Fig. 233F

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ipomoea quinata R.Br.

legitimate

Curry, S. & Chapman, A.R. (25 January 1996), Update to the informal names used in "Flora of the Kimberley Region".

:

465

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Merremia sp. A Kimberley Flora

[n/a]

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ipomoea quinata R.Br.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Convolvulus quinatus (R.Br.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ipomoea hirsuta R.Br.

nom. illeg.

taxonomic synonym:

Convolvulus brownii Spreng.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Johnson, R.W. (23 November 2009), A conspectus of Merremia Dennst. ex Endl. (Convolvulaceae) in Australia with the addition of two species.

Austrobaileya

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61-62

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ipomoea quinata R.Br.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Convolvulus quinatus (R.Br.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ipomoea hirsuta R.Br.

nom. illeg.

taxonomic synonym:

Convolvulus brownii Spreng.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Staples, G.W. (2010), A checklist of Merremia (Convolvulaceae) in Australasia and the Pacific.

The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore

:

499

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ipomoea quinata R.Br.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Convolvulus quinatus (R.Br.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ipomoea hirsuta R.Br.

nom. illeg.

Simões, A.R. & Staples, G.W. (2017), Dissolution of Convolvulaceae tribe Merremieae and a new classification of the constituent genera.

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

:

574

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Distimake quinatus (R.Br.) A.R.Simões & Staples

legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2017), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2016 census to 2017 census.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2017

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20

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Distimake quinatus (R.Br.) A.R.Simões & Staples

legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (28 March 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2018.

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12

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Distimake quinatus (R.Br.) A.R.Simões & Staples

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Distimake quinatus (R.Br.) A.R.Simões & Staples

legitimate