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 Styphelia lanceolata

Ericaceae Juss.

Styphelia lanceolata Sm.

, nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

, scientific

Smith, J.E. (1795), A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland 1(4)

:

49

[nom. nov.]

replaced synonym:

Epacris juniperina J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Epacris fasciculata G.Forst.

legitimate

doubtful taxonomic synonym:

Ardisia acerosa Gaertn.

legitimate

Text: "This in good fair specimens has no resemblance to Juniper, and the term acerosa is applicable to almost every species, as is that of fasciculata likewise to the following. We have therefore been obliged to find a name that might not mislead."
Comment: Reference to replaced synonym indirect, via citation of "Linn. Suppl. 138." [i.e. C.Linnaeus filius, Suppl. Pl. 138 (1782)], itself a secondary reference to the Forsters' name.
Comment: The designation "Styphelia lanceolata Sm. f. lanceolata" was listed by A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2778 (1991), but this autonym does not exist, in accordance with ICBN Art. 27.2 (Shenzhen Code, 2018).

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

:

541

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Leucopogon lanceolatus R.Br.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

:

185

BHL

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leucopogon lanceolatus R.Br.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875.

Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania

:

86

[secondary reference]

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

:

105

[secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

117

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leucopogon lanceolatus R.Br.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1916), A Census of New South Wales Plants

:

165

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Leucopogon lanceolatus R.Br.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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

:

112

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leucopogon lanceolatus R.Br.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

257

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leucopogon lanceolatus R.Br.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Cunningham, D.D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (September 1993), Epacridaceae.

A list of the vascular plants of South Australia

:

71

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leucopogon lanceolatus R.Br.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Powell, J.M., Walsh, N.G., & Brown, E.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Leucopogon.

Flora of Victoria

:

500

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Leucopogon lanceolatus R.Br.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Leucopogon affinis R.Br.

legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census.

A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

:

41

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Leucopogon affinis R.Br.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Styphelia affinis (R.Br.) Spreng.

legitimate