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 Marsdenia leichhardtiana

Apocynaceae Juss.

Marsdenia leichhardtiana F.Muell.

, nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

, scientific

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1866), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(38)

:

160

BHL

[nom. nov.]

replaced synonym:

Leichhardtia australis R.Br.

legitimate

Comment: nom. illeg., nom. superfl., as the epithet australis was available in Marsdenia in 1866 and thus ought to have been adopted by Mueller (ICN Art. 52.1 (Shenzhen Code, 2018)).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

94

[secondary reference]

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

:

218

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

:

332, Fig. 307

[secondary reference]

Vernacular: Doubah

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

465

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Marsdenia australis (R.Br.) Druce

legitimate

Bullock, A.A. (1956), The genus Leichardtia R.Br.

:

287

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4

:

700

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Marsdenia australis (R.Br.) Druce

legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957)

:

261

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leichhardtia australis R.Br.

legitimate

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

:

70

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leichhardtia australis R.Br.

legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Asclepiadaceae.

Flora of Central Australia

:

279

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leichhardtia australis R.Br.

legitimate

Forster, P.I. (25 October 1995), Circumscription of Marsdenia (Asclepiadaceae: Marsdenieae), with a revision of the genus in Australia and Papuasia.

Australian Systematic Botany

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778

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Marsdenia australis (R.Br.) Druce

legitimate

Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996), Asclepiadaceae.

Flora of Australia

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263

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Marsdenia australis (R.Br.) Druce

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Marsdenia australis (R.Br.) Druce

legitimate

Forster, P.I. (24 March 2021), Gymnema R.Br. and Leichhardtia R.Br. (Apocynaceae), reinstated genera for taxa previously included in Marsdenia R.Br.: a conspectus for Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Austrobaileya

:

7

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leichhardtia australis R.Br.

legitimate