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 Opercularia diphylla

Rubiaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Gentianales(ordo)
Rubiaceae(fam.)
Opercularia(gen.)
diphylla(sp.)

Opercularia diphylla Gaertn.

, legitimate

, scientific

Gaertner, J. (December 1788), De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 1

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113

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Ex herbario Banksiano. Habitat cum praecedenti" [i.e. O. aspera].

Comment: A.L.Jussieu, Ann. Mus. Natl Hist. Nat. 4 (1804) 427 states "in Australasiâ".

Dryander, J.C. in Koenig, K.D.E. & Sims, J. (ed.) (1 September 1806), Chloris Novae Hollandiae; or, Catalogue of the Plants of New Holland and Van Dieman's Island hitherto published, as far as they have come to the knowledge of J. Dryander.

Annals of Botany

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511

[secondary reference]

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1

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385

[doubtful taxonomic synonym]

doubtful taxonomic synonym of:

Opercularia hispida Spreng.

legitimate

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae.

Flora Australiensis

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434

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Opercularia sessiliflora A.Juss.

legitimate

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

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75

[secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

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173

[secondary reference]

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

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253

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1929), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

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1181

[secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

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355

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

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190

[secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rubiaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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325, Fig. 46G

[secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Allen, W.K. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Opercularia.

Flora of New South Wales

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491, pl.23

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online

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[secondary reference]

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