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 Rulingia hermanniifolia

Malvaceae Juss.

Rulingia hermanniifolia (J.Gay ex Kunth) Endl.

, legitimate

, scientific

Endlicher, S.F.L. (1842), Catalogus Horti Academici Vindobonensis

:

358

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Commersonia hermanniifolia J.Gay ex Kunth

legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

:

57, 293

[secondary reference]

alternative name:

Commersonia hermanniifolia J.Gay ex Kunth

legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

:

203

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

205

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

87

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Byttneria hermanniifolia (J.Gay ex Kunth) J.Gay

legitimate

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1

:

49

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Sterculiaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

305

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Sterculiaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

305

[secondary reference]

Guymer, G.P. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Sterculiaceae.

Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens

:

192

[secondary reference]

Wilkins, C.F., Copeland, L.M. & Whitlock, B.A. (15 February 2008), Two new species of Commersonia (Malvaceae sensu lato) from south-eastern Australia.

:

65

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Commersonia breviseta C.F.Wilkins & L.M.Copel. legitimate by

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

2

: 87

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Commersonia breviseta C.F.Wilkins & L.M.Copel. legitimate by

Guymer, G.P. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Sterculiaceae.

Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens

: 192

Wilkins, C.F. & Whitlock, B.A. (18 November 2011), A revision of Commersonia including Rulingia (Malvaceae s.l. or Byttneriaceae).

Australian Systematic Botany

:

263

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Commersonia hermanniifolia J.Gay ex Kunth

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Rulingia hermanniaefolia Endl.

orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Commersonia hermanniifolia J.Gay ex Kunth

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Commersonia amystia C.F.Wilkins & L.M.Copel. legitimate by

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

2

: 87

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Commersonia amystia C.F.Wilkins & L.M.Copel. legitimate by

Guymer, G.P. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Sterculiaceae.

Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens

: 192

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Commersonia hermanniifolia J.Gay ex Kunth

legitimate