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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The query is not case sensitive.
This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Aspidium molle

Thelypteridaceae Pic.Serm.

Aspidium molle Sw.

, legitimate

, scientific

Swartz, O. in Schrader, H.A. (ed.) (1801), Genera et species filicum ordine systematico redactarum adiectis synonymis et iconibus selectis, nec non speciebus recenter detectis, et demum plurimis dubiosis, ulterius investigandis.

Journal für die Botanik

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34

[nom. nov.]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

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149

[basionym]

basionym of:

Nephrodium molle (Sw.) R.Br.

legitimate

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1827), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 4(1)

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101

BHL

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1866), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(36)

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135

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

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756

[secondary reference]

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

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139

[secondary reference]

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

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284

[secondary reference]

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

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645

[secondary reference]

Vernacular: Binung

Domin, K. (October 1914), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

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49

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Dryopteris parasitica (L.) Kuntze

legitimate

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae.

Flora of South Australia

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39

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Dryopteris parasitica (L.) Kuntze

legitimate

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

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38

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Dryopteris parasitica (L.) Kuntze

legitimate

Holttum, R.E. (1976), The genus Christella Leveille, sect. Christella. Studies in the family Thelypteridaceae, XI.

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314

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Christella dentata (Forssk.) Brownsey & Jermy

legitimate

Holttum, R.E. (1977), The family Thelypteridaceae in the Pacific and Australasia.

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223

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Christella dentata (Forssk.) Brownsey & Jermy

legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

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584

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Christella dentata (Forssk.) Brownsey & Jermy

legitimate

Bostock, P.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Thelypteridaceae.

Flora of Australia

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346

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Christella dentata (Forssk.) Brownsey & Jermy

legitimate

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

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Christella dentata (Forssk.) Brownsey & Jermy

legitimate

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

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Christella dentata (Forssk.) Brownsey & Jermy

legitimate