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."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
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 triflorum

Fabaceae Lindl.

Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC.

, legitimate

, scientific

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1825), Leguminosae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

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334

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Hedysarum triflorum L.

legitimate

Hartley, W. (1953), Standardized Plant Names: a revised list of standard common names for the more important Australian grasses, other pasture plants, and weeds.

Bulletin (CSIRO)

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26

[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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261-262

[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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245-248

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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309, 312, Fig. 51H

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Hedysarum triflorum L.

legitimate

common name:

Creeping Tick Trefoil

[n/a]

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]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Fabaceae.

Flora of Australia

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214

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Hedysarum triflorum L.

legitimate

common name:

Tropical Trefoil

[n/a]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Atoll Research Bulletin

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23

[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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235, map 19

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Meibomia triflora (L.) Kuntze

legitimate

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

Journal of Japanese Botany

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131-132

[secondary reference]

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Hedysarum triflorum L.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

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-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Hedysarum triflorum L.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Sagotia triflora (L.) Duchass. & Walp.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Meibomia triflora (L.) Kuntze

legitimate

APC Dist.: CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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

Journal of Japanese Botany

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117

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Grona triflora (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

legitimate

Ho, B.C., Yeo, R.S.W. & Chen, L.M.J. (2021), A review of Desmodium s.l. (Leguminosae, subfamily Papilionoideae) in Singapore and nomenclature updates in the Malay Peninsula.

The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore

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68

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Grona triflora (L.) 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 triflora (L.) H.Ohashi & K.Ohashi

legitimate