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 Merremia umbellata

Convolvulaceae Juss.

Merremia umbellata (L.) Hallier f.

, legitimate

, scientific

Hallier, H.(J.)G. (1893), Versuch einer naturlichen Gliederung der Convolvulaceen auf morphologischer und anatomischer Grundlage.

Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie

:

552

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Convolvulus umbellatus L.

legitimate

Hallier, H.(J.)G. (1893), Convolvulaceae africanae.

Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie

:

114

[secondary reference]

Ooststroom, S.J. van (1939), The Convolvulaceae of Malaysia, II.

:

333-341

[secondary reference]

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

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

449-450

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ipomoea cymosa (Desr.) Roem. & Schult.

legitimate

Green, J.W. (20 June 1988), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 6

:

21

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

755, Fig. 234B

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Convolvulus umbellatus L.

legitimate

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Convolvulus umbellatus L.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, Qld

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

Austrobaileya

:

62

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Convolvulus umbellatus L.

legitimate

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

The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore

:

503-504

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Convolvulus umbellatus L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Convolvulus cymosus Desr.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ipomoea cymosa (Desr.) Roem. & Schult.

legitimate

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

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583

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Camonea umbellata (L.) 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.

:

12

[secondary reference]

Text: "Excluded taxon. See Simões & Staples (2017). [Simões, A.R. & Staples, G.W. (2017), Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 183: 582.]"

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Camonea umbellata (L.) A.R.Simões & Staples

legitimate

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

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Camonea pilosa (Houtt.) A.R.Simões & Staples legitimate by

Green, J.W. (20 June 1988), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 6

: 21

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Camonea pilosa (Houtt.) A.R.Simões & Staples legitimate by

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

Flora of the Kimberley Region

: 755, Fig. 234B