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 Hydrocotyle scutellifera

Araliaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Apiales(ordo)
Araliaceae(fam.)
Hydrocotyle(gen.)
scutellifera(sp.)

Hydrocotyle scutellifera Benth.

, legitimate

, scientific

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae.

Flora Australiensis

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343

[tax. nov.]

Type: "W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st Coll. and 2nd Coll. n. 4."

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

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62

[secondary reference]

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse.

Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie

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450

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

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135

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons.

Flora of the South West

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484

[secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6

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-

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA

Perkins, A.J. (2019), Molecular phylogenetics and species delimitation in annual species of Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) from South Western Australia.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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139, Fig. 6 (map)

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Hydrocotyle blepharocarpa F.Muell.

legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (10 December 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2019.

:

346

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Hydrocotyle sp. Puberula (H.Eichler 22058) WA Herbarium

[n/a]

Perkins, A.J. (10 December 2019), Nomenclatural updates and a new species of annual Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) from Western Australia.

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268-272, Figs 8, 9 (map) APC

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Type citation: ‘Swan River, Drummond 1st Coll. and 2nd Coll. n. 4’. Type specimens: Swan River, [Western Australia], 1839, J. Drummond [1st coll.] s.n. (lecto, here designated: K 000686144 image!); Swan River, [Western Australia], 1843, J. Drummond, 2nd Coll. n. 4. (syn: BM 000810391 image!, G 00366924 image!, G 00366946 image!, K 000686143 image! [left hand specimen on the sheet accompanied with illustrations of a stipule and schizocarp], K 000686145 image!, LE 00015634 image!, MEL 7855!, P 00115426 image!, P00115427 image!)."

taxonomic synonym:

Hydrocotyle blepharocarpa F.Muell.

legitimate

common name:

Western Shield Pennywort

[n/a]

APC Dist.: WA

Etymology: "The epithet is derived from the Latin scutella, ‘a small shield’, and fero, ‘to bear’, in reference to the lateral surfaces of the fruit bearing a ‘little shield’ on both sides of each mericarp ... The prominently raised lateral and median ribs, with the semi-circular concave surface between them, give each mericarp their characteristic shield-like appearance."

Perkins, A.J. (10 December 2019), Nomenclatural updates and a new species of annual Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) from Western Australia.

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264

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Hydrocotyle perplexa A.J.Perkins legitimate by

Perkins, A.J. (2019), Molecular phylogenetics and species delimitation in annual species of Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) from South Western Australia.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

134

: 139, Fig. 6 (map)

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (24 June 2021), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2020.

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12

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Hydrocotyle blepharocarpa F.Muell.

legitimate

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

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-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Hydrocotyle perplexa A.J.Perkins legitimate by

Perkins, A.J. (2019), Molecular phylogenetics and species delimitation in annual species of Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) from South Western Australia.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

134

: 139, Fig. 6 (map)