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 Nymphaea capensis

Nymphaeaceae Salisb.

Nymphaea capensis Thunb.

, legitimate

, scientific

Thunberg, C.P. (1800), Prodromus Plantarum Capensium 2

:

92

[tax. nov.]

Type: (none cited).

Blake, S.T. (1959), New or noteworthy plants, chiefly from Queensland, I.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland

:

40

[secondary reference]

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

:

138

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

170

[secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Nymphaeaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

180-181, Fig. 25C

[secondary reference]

common name:

Cape Blue Waterlily

[n/a]

Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3

:

228

[secondary reference]

common name:

Cape Blue Waterlily

[n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Nymphaeaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

151

[secondary reference]

common name:

Cape Waterlily

[n/a]

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1

:

21

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Nymphaea caerulea subsp. zanzibarensis (Casp.) S.W.L.Jacobs

legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Nymphaeaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

151

[secondary reference]

common name:

Cape Waterlily

[n/a]

Jessup, L.W. (2003), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 1 Changes to names or status of taxa

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Nymphaea caerulea subsp. zanzibarensis (Casp.) S.W.L.Jacobs legitimate by

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Nymphaeaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

1

: 180-181, Fig. 25C

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

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Nymphaea caerulea Savigny

legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Porter, C.L. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Nymphaeaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

264

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Nymphaea caerulea Savigny

legitimate

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