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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
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You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Cyperus distans

Cyperaceae Juss.

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

Cyperus distans L.f.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. [filius] (April 1782), Supplementum Plantarum

:

103

[tax. nov.]

Type: Habitat in Malabaria.

Kunth, K.S. (1837), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 2

:

93

[secondary reference]

Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 2(7)

:

49

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71)

:

266

[secondary reference]

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

:

277

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Cyperus elatus L. nom. illeg. by

Rottboell, C.F. (1773), Descriptionum et Iconum Rariores et pro maxima parte novas plantas

: 37, pl. 10

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

:

125

[secondary reference]

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

:

589

[secondary reference]

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

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

430-431

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Cyperus elatus L. nom. illeg. by

Rottboell, C.F. (1773), Descriptionum et Iconum Rariores et pro maxima parte novas plantas

: 37, pl. 10

Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia

:

117

BHL

[secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae.

Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis

:

11

[secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae.

Das Pflanzenreich

:

137-141

[secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

610

[secondary reference]

Koyama, T. (1977), The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore 30

:

135

[secondary reference]

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

:

40

[secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

312, Fig. 45A

[secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. (27 September 1991), Systematic studies in Cyperus section Pinnati (Cyperaceae).

:

425

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Cyperus microcephalus R.Br. subsp. microcephalus legitimate by

Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia

3

: 117

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

:

569

[secondary reference]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Cyperus distans L.f. f. distans

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cyperus distans f. pallidior Kük.

legitimate

misapplication: Cyperus elatus L. nom. illeg. by

Rottboell, C.F. (1773), Descriptionum et Iconum Rariores et pro maxima parte novas plantas

: 37, pl. 10

APC Dist.: Qld

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

:

-

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cyperus microcephalus R.Br. legitimate by

Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia

3

: 117