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 Aster tomentosus

Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl

Aster tomentosus J.C.Wendl.

, legitimate

, scientific

Wendland, J.C. in Schrader, H.A. & Wendland, J.C. (1798), Sertum Hannoveranum 4

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8, t. 24

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Caput bonae spei."

Moench, C. (1802), Supplementum ad Methodus plantas

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254

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Olearia dentata Moench

nom. illeg.

Dryander, J.C. in Koenig, K.D.E. & Sims, J. (ed.) (1 September 1806), Chloris Novae Hollandiae; or, Catalogue of the Plants of New Holland and Van Dieman's Island hitherto published, as far as they have come to the knowledge of J. Dryander.

Annals of Botany

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528

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Aster dentatus Andrews

legitimate

Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de (ed.) (1836), Compositae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

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252

[basionym]

basionym of:

Olearia tomentosa (J.C.Wendl.) DC.

legitimate

Rafinesque, C.S. (1837), Flora Telluriana 3

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48

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Orestion dentata (Andrews) Raf.

nom. superfl.

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

Flora Australiensis

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271

[secondary reference]

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

Flora Australiensis

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472

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Olearia dentata Moench

nom. illeg.

Walsh, N.G. & Lander, N.S. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Olearia.

Flora of Victoria

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894

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Olearia tomentosa (J.C.Wendl.) DC.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Olearia tomentosa (J.C.Wendl.) DC.

legitimate