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 not case sensitive.
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 Argyreia

Convolvulaceae Juss.

, legitimate

, scientific

Loureiro, J. de (1790), Flora Cochinchinensis Edn. 1, 1

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134

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1

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3

[secondary reference]

Text: "Species undefined... Q." [i.e. Queensland]

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

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347

[secondary reference]

Merrill, E.D. (1935), A commentary on Loureiro's Flora Cochinchinensis.

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, n. ser

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311

[secondary reference]

Type: Argyreia obtusifolia Lour.

Ooststroom, S.J. van & Hoogland, R.D. (March 1953), Agyreia.

Flora Malesiana Series I

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494

[secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

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244

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Lettsomia Roxb.

nom. illeg.

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

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132

[secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

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65

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: Qld (native and naturalised)

Staples, G.W. & Traiperm, P. (2017), A nomenclatural review of Argyreia (Convolvulaceae).

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448

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Lettsomia Roxb.

nom. illeg.

Wood, J.R.I., Muñoz-Rodríguez, P., Williams, B.R.M. & Scotland, R.W. (16 March 2020), A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World.

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101

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

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

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-

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Lettsomia Roxb.

nom. illeg.

APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate