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 Phyllodium

Fabaceae Lindl.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Fabales(ordo)
Fabaceae(fam.)
Phyllodium(gen.)

Phyllodium Desv.

, legitimate

, scientific

Desvaux, N.A. in Desvaux, N.A. (ed.) (1813), Precis des caracteres de plusieurs genres de la famille des Legumineuses.

Journal de Botanique, Appliquee l'Agriculture, a la Pharmacie, a la Medicine et aux Arts

:

123, pl. 5, fig. 24

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2

:

229

[basionym]

basionym of:

Desmodium sect. Phyllodium (Desv.) Benth.

legitimate

Baker, J.G. in Hooker, J.D. (May 1876), Leguminosae.

The Flora of British India

:

162

[basionym]

basionym of:

Desmodium subg. Phyllodium (Desv.) Baker

legitimate

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

:

40

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Desmodium Desv.

nom. cons.

Kuntze, C.E.O. in Post, T. von & Kuntze, O. (1903), Lexikon Generum Phanerogamarum

:

356

[basionym]

basionym of:

Meibomia sect. Phyllodium (Desv.) Kuntze

legitimate

Ohashi, H. (15 February 1973), The Asiatic species of Desmodium and its allied genera (Leguminosae).

Ginkgoana, contributions to the flora of Asia and the Pacific Region

:

276

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Desmodium subg. Phyllodium (Desv.) Baker

legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae).

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

423

[secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (25 January 1999), Desmodium Desv. (Fabaceae) and related genera in Australia: a taxonomic revision.

Austrobaileya

:

255

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Desmodium sect. Phyllodium (Desv.) Benth.

legitimate

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

:

660

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Desmodium sect. Phyllodium (Desv.) Benth.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Desmodium subg. Phyllodium (Desv.) Baker

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld