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 sphaerocephala

Cyperaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Cyperaceae(fam.)
Fimbristylis(gen.)
sphaerocephala(sp.)

Fimbristylis sphaerocephala Benth.

, legitimate

, scientific

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

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306

[tax. nov.]

Type: "N. Australia. Victoria River F.Mueller; Camden Harbour, Martin. Queensland, Sunday Island, near Cape York, A. Cunningham."

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

:

753

[basionym]

basionym of:

Iria sphaerocephala (Benth.) Kuntze

legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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594

[secondary reference]

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

Bibliotheca Botanica

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452

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Fimbristylis monandra F.Muell.

nom. illeg.

Blake, S.T. (1969), Studies in Cyperaceae.

Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium

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13

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Northern Territory, Upper Victoria River, Mueller (K, lectotype; MEL, BRI)."

taxonomic synonym:

Fimbristylis monandra F.Muell.

nom. illeg.

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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226

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

:

41

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Fimbristylis semilevis F.Muell. ex C.B.Clarke

legitimate

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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1088-1089, Fig. 317N

[secondary reference]

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

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Iriha sphaerocephala Kuntze

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Iria sphaerocephala (Benth.) Kuntze

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Fimbristylis monandra F.Muell.

nom. illeg.

taxonomic synonym:

Iriha muelleriana Kuntze

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Iria muelleriana Kuntze

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Fimbristylis semilevis F.Muell. ex C.B.Clarke

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld