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 Ganitrus sphaerica

Elaeocarpaceae Juss.

Ganitrus sphaerica Gaertn.

, legitimate

, scientific

Gaertner, J. (1791), De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 2(2)

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271, t. 139

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: "A Cl. HERMANN. Prof. argentor."

Comment: Regarded as an illegitimate superfluous name by C.Tirel & J.Raynal, Adansonia II, 20(2): 172-175 (1980), on the basis of Gaertner's inclusion of pre-Linnaean names that are now Elaeocarpus serratus L. However, since Gaertner did not explicitly cite the name Elaeocarpus serratus L. or its type, Ganitrus sphaerica Gaertn. is here treated as being legitimate.

Ettingshausen, K. von (1883), Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Tertiärflora Australiens.

Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse

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140

[basionym]

basionym of:

Elaeocarpus sphaericus (Gaertn.) Ettingsh.

legitimate

Schumann, K.M. in Engler, H.G.A. & Prantl, K.A.E. (ed.) (September 1890), Elaeocarpaceae.

Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien

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5

[basionym]

basionym of:

Elaeocarpus sphaericus (Gaertn.) K.Schum.

isonym

Tirel, C. & Raynal, J. (1980), Recherches bibliographiques sue trois espèces d'Elaeocarpus (Elaeocarpaceae).

Adansonia: recueil périodique d'observations botanique, n.s

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172-175

[secondary reference]

Coode, M.J.E. in Henty, E.E. (ed.) (1981), Elaeocarpaceae.

Handbooks of the flora of Papua New Guinea

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87

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Elaeocarpus sphaericus (Gaertn.) Ettingsh.

legitimate

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

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Elaeocarpus sphaericus (Gaertn.) Ettingsh.

legitimate

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