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 Operculina brownii

Convolvulaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Solanales(ordo)
Convolvulaceae(fam.)
Operculina(gen.)
brownii(sp.)

Operculina brownii Ooststr.

, legitimate

, scientific

Ooststroom, S.J. van (1939), The Convolvulaceae of Malaysia, II.

:

366

[nom. nov.]

replaced synonym:

Ipomoea alata R.Br.

legitimate

Ooststroom, S.J. van (March 1953), Convolvulaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

456-457

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ipomoea alata R.Br.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Convolvulus alatus (R.Br.) Spreng.

legitimate

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

:

142

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

23

[secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1

:

21

[secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2

:

22

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. & Marchant, N.G. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Convolvulaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

757, Fig. 232D

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ipomoea alata R.Br.

legitimate

common name:

Potato vine

[n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

:

303

[secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia

:

94

[secondary reference]

common name:

Potato Vine

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ipomoea alata R.Br.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Convolvulus alatus (R.Br.) Spreng.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (November 2015), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2014 census to 2015 census.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2015

:

20

[secondary reference]

Staples, G.W., Simões, A.R. & Austin, D.F. (1 May 2020), A monograph of Operculina (Concolvulaceae).

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

:

85

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Operculina codonantha (Benth.) Hallier f.

legitimate

Brown, G.K. & Bostock, P.D. (December 2020), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2019 to 2020.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2020

:

11

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Operculina codonantha (Benth.) Hallier f.

legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (24 June 2021), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2020.

:

16

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Operculina codonantha (Benth.) Hallier f.

legitimate