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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Showing Desmodium trichostachyum

Fabaceae Lindl.

Desmodium trichostachyum Benth.

, legitimate

, scientific

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2

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234

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: "N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Arnhem's Land, F. Mueller; Port Essington, Armstrong. Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; E. coast, A. Cunningham."

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

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40

[secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1

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198

[basionym]

basionym of:

Meibomia trichostachya (Benth.) Kuntze

legitimate

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

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140, Fig. 115

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

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768-769

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Meibomia trichostachya (Benth.) Kuntze

legitimate

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

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242

[secondary reference]

Knaap-van Meeuwen, M.S. (1962), Preliminary revisions of some genera of Malaysian Papilionaceae V - a census of the genus Desmodium.

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261

[secondary reference]

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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240

BHL

[secondary reference]

Ohashi, H. (15 February 1973), The Asiatic species of Desmodium and its allied genera (Leguminosae).

Ginkgoana, contributions to the flora of Asia and the Pacific Region

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244-245

[secondary reference]

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

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94

[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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34

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae).

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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397, Fig. 118G

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

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305

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2

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74, Fig. 22

[secondary reference]

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

Austrobaileya

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237, map 22

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Meibomia trichostachya (Benth.) Kuntze

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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

Austrobaileya

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237

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: Port Essington, Armstrong (lecto: K, chosen here).

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

Journal of Japanese Botany

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131

[secondary reference]

Ohashi, H. & Ohashi, K. (2018), Grona, a genus separated from Desmodium (Leguminosae Tribe Desmodieae.

Journal of Japanese Botany

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117

[basionym]

basionym of:

Grona trichostachya (Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Grona trichostachya (Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021.

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7

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Grona trichostachya (Benth.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

legitimate

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