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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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 Dicerma biarticulatum

Fabaceae Lindl.

Dicerma biarticulatum (L.) DC.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

:

339

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Hedysarum biarticulatum L.

legitimate

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

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xliii.

[secondary reference]

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

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231

BHL

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Desmodium biarticulatum (L.) F.Muell.

legitimate

Gagnepain, F. (1916), Un Genre Meconnu: Aphyllodium.

Notulae Systematicae (Paris)

:

254

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Aphyllodium biarticulatum (L.) Gagnep.

legitimate

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

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

766

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Desmodium biarticulatum (L.) F.Muell.

legitimate

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928.

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

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323

[secondary reference]

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]

nomenclatural synonym:

Desmodium biarticulatum (L.) F.Muell.

legitimate

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

:

246

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Desmodium biarticulatum (L.) F.Muell. var. biarticulatum

legitimate

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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252-257

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Desmodium biarticulatum (L.) F.Muell.

legitimate

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

:

94

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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397

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Desmodium biarticulatum (L.) F.Muell.

legitimate

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

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69

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Desmodium biarticulatum (L.) F.Muell.

legitimate

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

Journal of Japanese Botany

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107

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Aphyllodium biarticulatum (L.) Gagnep.

legitimate

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

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Aphyllodium biarticulatum (L.) Gagnep.

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Aphyllodium biarticulatum (L.) Gagnep.

legitimate