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 Pistia stratiotes

Araceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Alismatales(ordo)
Araceae(fam.)
Pistia(gen.)
stratiotes(sp.)

Pistia stratiotes L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2

:

963

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Asiae, Africae, Americae meridionalibus, natans."

Blake, S.T. (1954), Botanical contributions of the Northern Australia Regional Survey. II. Studies on miscellaneous northern Australian plants.

Australian Journal of Botany

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103

[secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

:

226

BHL

[secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia

:

194-197

[secondary reference]

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

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44

[secondary reference]

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

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

8

[secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Araceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

:

733-734

[secondary reference]

common name:

Water Lettuce

[n/a]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Araceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

271

[secondary reference]

common name:

Water Lettuce

[n/a]

Hay, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Araceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

36

[secondary reference]

common name:

Water Lettuce

[n/a]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Araceae.

Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia

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215-216, Pl. 41, Fig. 45

[secondary reference]

common name:

Water Lettuce

[n/a]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT, Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Hay, A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Araceae.

Flora of Australia

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274, Plate 63, Fig. 60

[secondary reference]

common name:

Water Lettuce

[n/a]