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 Capparis nobilis

Capparaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Brassicales(ordo)
Capparaceae(fam.)
Capparis(gen.)
nobilis(sp.)

Capparis nobilis (Endl.) F.Muell. ex Benth.

, legitimate

, scientific

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

:

95

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Busbeckea nobilis Endl.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Busbeckea arborea F.Muell.

legitimate

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

:

5

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

8

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

:

34

[secondary reference]

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

:

40

[secondary reference]

Vernacular: Rarum

Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

686

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Busbeckea nobilis Endl.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Capparis elegans Pax

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Jacobs, M. (1965), The genus Capparis (Capparaceae) from the Indus to the Pacific.

:

524-525

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Capparis nobilis var. typica Domin

nom. inval.

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Capparaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

215

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Capparis arborea (F.Muell.) Maiden legitimate by

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

: 95

Floyd, A.G. (1989), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia

:

85

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Capparis arborea (F.Muell.) Maiden

legitimate

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

Flora of Australia

:

132, Fig. 41

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Busbeckea nobilis Endl.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Capparis elegans Pax

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

taxonomic synonym:

Capparis citrina Heward

nom. inval., nom. nud.

taxonomic synonym:

Capparis nobilis var. typica Domin

nom. inval.

taxonomic synonym:

Capparis nobilis var. citrina (A.Cunn.) Domin

legitimate

common name:

Devil's Guts

[n/a]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

:

109

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Capparis arborea (F.Muell.) Maiden

legitimate

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Busbeckea nobilis Endl.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Capparis elegans Pax

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

taxonomic synonym:

Capparis citrina Heward

nom. inval., nom. nud.

taxonomic synonym:

Capparis nobilis (Endl.) F.Muell. ex Benth. var. nobilis

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Capparis nobilis var. typica Domin

nom. inval.

taxonomic synonym:

Capparis nobilis var. citrina (A.Cunn.) Domin

legitimate

APC Dist.: NI

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

:

-

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Capparis arborea (F.Muell.) Maiden legitimate by

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

: 95

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

:

-

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Capparis arborea (F.Muell.) Maiden legitimate by

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

: 95