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 Fimbristylis oxystachya

Cyperaceae Juss.

Fimbristylis oxystachya F.Muell.

, legitimate

, scientific

Mueller, F.J.H. von (November 1859), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1(8)

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195

[tax. nov.]

Type: "In locis arenoso-petraeis passim irrigius plagae elatioris (Sandstone table-land) ad originem fluvii Victoriae."

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

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126

[secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2

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753

[basionym]

basionym of:

Iria oxystachya (F.Muell.) Kuntze

legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

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453

[secondary reference]

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Abildgaardia monostachya (L.) Vahl

legitimate

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928.

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

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320

[secondary reference]

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

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205

[secondary reference]

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

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

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225

BHL

[secondary reference]

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera).

Flora of Central Australia

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500

[secondary reference]

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

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41

[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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26

[secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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1082-1083, Fig. 316H

[secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. (10 October 1997), A synopsis of the annual species of Cyperaceae from central and southern Western Australia.

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409, Fig. 9

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

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-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Iriha oxystachya Kuntze

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Iria oxystachya (F.Muell.) Kuntze

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Larridon, I., Zuntini, A.R., Barrett, R.L., Wilson, K.L., Bruhl, J.J., Goetghebeur, P., Baker, W.J., Brewer, G.E., Epitawalage, N., Fairlie, I., Forest, F., Sabino Kikuchi, I.A.B., Pokorny, L., Semmouri, I., Spalink, D., Simpson, D.A., Muasya, A.M. & Roalson, E.H. (4 January 2021), Resolving generic limits in Cyperaceae tribe Abildgaardieae using targeted sequencing.

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

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183

[basionym]

basionym of:

Abildgaardia oxystachya (F.Muell.) K.L.Wilson & J.J.Bruhl

legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021.

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8

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Abildgaardia oxystachya (F.Muell.) K.L.Wilson & J.J.Bruhl

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Abildgaardia oxystachya (F.Muell.) K.L.Wilson & J.J.Bruhl

legitimate