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 Digitalis purpurea

Plantaginaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Lamiales(ordo)
Plantaginaceae(fam.)
Digitalis(gen.)
purpurea(sp.)

Digitalis purpurea L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2

:

621

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Europa australiore. ♂."

Ewart, A.J. (1908), Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. VIII.

The Victorian Naturalist

:

193

[secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. (1917), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 25.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria

:

144

[secondary reference]

Raphael, T.D. (1955), Tasmanian garden escapes.

Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania

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148

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

519

[secondary reference]

common name:

Foxglove

[n/a]

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

:

199

[secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Scrophulariaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

573

[secondary reference]

common name:

Foxglove

[n/a]

Barker, W.R. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Scrophulariaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

517, Fig. 101a

[secondary reference]

common name:

Foxgloves

[n/a]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Digitalis purpurea L. subsp. purpurea

legitimate

APC Comment: Treated as Digitaria purpurea subsp. purpurea in Vic.
APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

:

75

[secondary reference]