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 Marsilea mutica

Marsileaceae Mirb.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Polypodiidae(subcl.)
Salviniales(ordo)
Marsileaceae(fam.)
Marsilea(gen.)
mutica(sp.)

Marsilea mutica Mett.

, legitimate

, scientific

Mettenius, G.H. (1861), Filices Novae Caledoniae.

Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique

:

88

[tax. nov.]

Type: ""Kanala" (1698)."

Tindale, M.D. (24 September 1953), Studies in Australian Pteridophytes. No. 1.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium

:

8

[secondary reference]

Type: "Lieux inondé à Kanala, New Caledonia, Vieillard No, 1698, 1855-60 (P.), (v.), also 2 isotypes(P.)."

Tindale, M.D. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (1958), The Pteridophyta of Arnhem Land.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

:

172, 182

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Marsilea brownii A.Braun

legitimate

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

:

80

[secondary reference]

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

:

31

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Marsilea brownii A.Braun

legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

:

218

BHL

[secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia

:

40-41

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Marsilea brownii A.Braun

legitimate

Chinnock, R.J. & Henshall, T.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Pteridophyta.

Flora of Central Australia

:

13, Fig. 25

[secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales

:

33, Fig. 3e

[secondary reference]

common name:

Smooth Nardoo

[n/a]

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia

:

4

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

27

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

2

[secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Marsileaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

70, pl.5.

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Marsileaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

50

[secondary reference]

common name:

Nardoo

[n/a]

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants.

Flora of Victoria

:

55, Fig. 12a-b

[secondary reference]

common name:

Smooth Nardoo

[n/a]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia

:

50

[secondary reference]

common name:

Nardoo

[n/a]

Jones, D.L. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Marsileaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

167-168, Figs 19, 56

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Marsilea brownii A.Braun

legitimate

misapplication: Marsilea quadrifolia L. legitimate by

Brown, R. in Flinders, M. (1814), General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis.

A Voyage to Terra Australis

2, Appendix III

: 593

common name:

Smooth Nardoo

[n/a]

APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA (naturalised), Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic (native and uncertain origin), Tas (naturalised)

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Algae:Fern Allies.

Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia

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48, Fig. 8

[secondary reference]

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Marsileaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

70, Plate 5

[secondary reference]

Tindale, M.D. & Roy, S.K. (23 December 2002), A cytotaxonomic survey of the Pteridophyta of Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

850

[secondary reference]

Short, P., Dixon, D. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2003), A review of the ferns and fern allies of the Northern Territory.

The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory

:

29, Fig. 7G, map

[secondary reference]

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

32

[secondary reference]

Type: "lieux inonde a Kanala [inundated places in Kanala], New Caledonia, 1855–1860, Vieillard 1698 (lecto: P 00636716!; isolecto: BR 0013306007*, K 001092629*, P 00636714!, P 00636715!, S S-P-17878*, US 00048793!"

Text: "Tindale (1956) cited the type of the name Marsilea mutica as ‘holotype: lieux inondé à Kanala, New Caledonia, Viellard No. 1698, 1855-60 (P.), also 2 isotypes (P.)’. This is here treated as effective lectotypification by Tindale, in accordance with ICN Art. 7.11 (Turland et al. 2018). Because Tindale’s citation meets the relevant requirements of ICN Art. 7.11, her use of the term ‘holotype’ is correctable under ICN Art. 9.10."