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 Rumex spinosus

Polygonaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Caryophyllanae(superordo)
Caryophyllales(ordo)
Polygonaceae(fam.)
Rumex(gen.)
spinosus(sp.)

Rumex spinosus L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1

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337

[tax. nov.]

Campdera, F. (1819), Monographia des Rumex

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58

[basionym]

basionym of:

Emex spinosa (L.) Campd.

legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Polygonaceae.

Flora of Victoria

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295, Fig.58e

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Emex spinosa (L.) Campd.

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Emex spinosa (L.) Campd.

legitimate

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets.

The Electronic Flora of South Australia

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Emex spinosa (L.) Campd.

legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (16 March 2017), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2016.

:

125

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Emex spinosa (L.) Campd.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Emex spinosa (L.) Campd.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Emex spinosa (L.) Campd. var. spinosa

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Emex spinosa var. minor Zohary & Waisel

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (formerly naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2018), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2017 to 2018.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2018

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11

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Emex spinosa (L.) Campd.

legitimate