Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Apocynaceae Juss.
Asclepias L. , legitimate , scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753) , Species Plantarum 1
214
[tax. nov.]
Linnaeus, C. (1754) , Genera Plantarum Edn. 5
102
[secondary reference]
Brown, R. (3 April 1810) , On the Asclepiadeae
25-26
[secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (16 December 1868) , Flora Australiensis 4
326
[secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913) , Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants
325
[secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (December 1926) , Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3
464
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"Greco-Latin name of a Mediterranean plant, now Cynanchum Vincetoxicum (L.) Pers., or Swallow-wort, a supplement antidote for poison, so called after Asklepios, in Latin Aesculapius, the god of medicine."
Hitchcock, A.S. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929) , The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists
136
[secondary reference]
Type:
Asclepias syriaca L.
Woodson, R.E. (1954) , The North American Species of Asclepias L. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 41(1)
1-211
[secondary reference]
Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4
699
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"Greco-Latin name of a Mediterranean plant, now Cynanchum Vincetoxicum (L.) Pers., or Swallow-wort, a supplement antidote for poison, so-called after Asklepios, in Latin Aesculapius, the god of medicine."
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains
352
[secondary reference]
Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979) , Index Nominum Genericorum 1
201
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Bidaria (Decne. legitimate
Cronquist, A.J. (1981) , An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants
880, 882
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
69
[secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986) , Asclepiadaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2
308
[secondary reference]
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987) , Asclepiadaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1
525
[secondary reference]
Harden, G.J. & Williams, J.B. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992) , Asclepiadaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3
528
[secondary reference]
Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996) , Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28
215
[secondary reference]
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)
Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999) , Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Victoria 4
326
[secondary reference]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004) , Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest
34
[secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3
72
[secondary reference]
