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 Cyperus microcephalus

Cyperaceae Juss.

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

Cyperus microcephalus R.Br.

, legitimate

, scientific

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

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215

[tax. nov.]

Type: "(T.) v.v."

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

Bibliotheca Botanica

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432

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Nord-Australien: R. Brown, Iter australiense 1802–05 No. 5902"

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

Das Pflanzenreich

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457

[basionym]

basionym of:

Cyperus sporobolus var. microcephalus (R.Br.) Kük.

legitimate

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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224

BHL

[secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2

:

94

[secondary reference]

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

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40

[secondary reference]

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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24

[secondary reference]

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

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423-425, Figs 13a-i, 14a-c

[secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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1054

[secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6

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-

[secondary reference]

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

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Cyperus sporobolus var. microcephalus (R.Br.) Kük.

legitimate

pro parte misapplication: Cyperus fulvus R.Br. legitimate by

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

: 268 pro parte misapplication: Cyperus sporobolus R.Br. legitimate by

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

: 281 pro parte misapplication: Cyperus sporobolus R.Br. legitimate by

Ewart, A.J. & Davies, O.B. (1917), The Flora of the Northern Territory

: 56 pro parte misapplication: Cyperus holoschoenus 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 pro parte misapplication: Cyperus distans L.f. 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 pro parte misapplication: Cyperus sporobolus 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

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld