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 Solanum elegans

Solanaceae Juss.

Solanum elegans Dunal ex Poir.

, legitimate

, scientific

Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (3 September 1814), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 3(2)

:

769

[tax. nov.]

Type: Cette plante croit a la Nouvelle-Hollande. (Dunal, in herb. Mus. Paris.)"

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

:

461

BHL

[secondary reference]

Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

:

146-147, Figs 53, 151L, 162K, Map 20b

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Holotype: Not traced. There is at MPU in the Herb. Dunal an unpublished plate, Dunal, Sol. ic. ined. t. 58 (photo ADW), labelled S. elegans with no other information. ... I propose this plate as the iconotype for S. elegans Dunal."

taxonomic synonym:

Solanum amblymerum Dunal

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Solanum violaceum var. amblymerum (Dunal) Maiden & Betche

legitimate

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

130, Map 113

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Solanum amblymerum Dunal

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Solanum violaceum var. amblymerum (Dunal) Maiden & Betche

legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Solanaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

427, Fig. 59D

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Solanum amblymerum Dunal

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Solanum violaceum var. amblymerum (Dunal) Maiden & Betche

legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3

:

284

[secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Solanaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

361

[secondary reference]

common name:

Spiny Kangaroo Apple

[n/a]

Bean, A.R. & Henderson, R.J.F. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Solanaceae.

Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens

:

189

[secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. (5 January 2002), A revision of Solanum brownii Dunal (Solanaceae) and its allies.

:

650

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Solanum brownii Dunal

legitimate

Bean, A.R. (6 December 2004), The taxonomy and ecology of Solanum subg. Leptostemonum (Dunal) Bitter (Solanaceae) in Queensland and far north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Austrobaileya

:

780

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Solanum limitare A.R.Bean legitimate by

Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

4

: 146-147, Figs 53, 151L, 162K, Map 20b

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

:

-

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Solanum limitare A.R.Bean legitimate by

Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

4

: 146-147, Figs 53, 151L, 162K, Map 20b

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

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Solanum brownii Dunal

legitimate

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

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Solanum amblymerum Dunal legitimate by

Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

4

: 146-147, Figs 53, 151L, 162K, Map 20b

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Solanum amblymerum Dunal legitimate by

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae.

Flora of Australia

29

: 130, Map 113