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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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 Desmodium tenax

Fabaceae Lindl.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Fabales(ordo)
Fabaceae(fam.)
Desmodium(gen.)
tenax(sp.)

Desmodium tenax Schindl.

, legitimate

, scientific

Schindler, A.K. (1925), Desmodii generumque affinium species et combinationes novae.

Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis

:

10

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Austromalayische Provinz: Tropisches Australien: Queensland, Rockingham's Bay (J. Dallachy!)."

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs.

Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs

:

66

[secondary reference]

Pedley, L. (25 January 1999), Desmodium Desv. (Fabaceae) and related genera in Australia: a taxonomic revision.

Austrobaileya

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250, map 38

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Desmodium rhytidophyllum subsp. acutifoliolum Verdc.

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines

:

Code 3160

[secondary reference]

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

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209

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Desmodium rhytidophyllum subsp. acutifoliolum Verdc.

legitimate

Ohashi, H. (2004), Taxonomy and distribution of Desmodium and related genera (Leguminosae) in Malesia (I).

Journal of Japanese Botany

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130

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Desmodium rhytidophyllum subsp. acutifoliolum Verdc.

legitimate

Ohashi, K., Ohashi, H., Nemoto, T. & Nata, K. (20 October 2020), Phylogenetic analyses for classification of the Desmodium group of Leguminosae Tribe Desmodieae 4. Desmodium and Oxytes in Oceania.

Journal of Japanese Botany

:

265

[basionym]

basionym of:

Maekawaea tenax (Schindl.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

legitimate

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