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 Carapa moluccensis

Meliaceae Juss.

Carapa moluccensis Lam.

, legitimate

, scientific

Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1785), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 1(2)

:

621

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Cet arbre croît les Moluques"

Roemer, J.J. in Roemer, M.J. (1846), Hesperides.

Familiarum Naturalium Regni Vegetabilis Synopses Monographicae

:

124

[basionym]

basionym of:

Xylocarpus moluccensis (Lam.) M.Roem.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1860), Essay on the plants collected by Mr Eugene Fitzalan during Lieut. Smith's Expedition to the Estuary of the Burdekin

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18

[secondary reference]

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

:

387

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Xylocarpus granatum J.Koenig

legitimate

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

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9

[secondary reference]

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

:

16

BHL

[secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1

:

110

[basionym]

basionym of:

Granatum moluccense (Lam.) Kuntze

legitimate

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

:

88

[secondary reference]

common name:

Apple Mangrove

[n/a]

common name:

Cannon-ball tree

[n/a]

Vernacular: Boora

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

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294

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Xylocarpus granatum J.Koenig

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Xylocarpus moluccensis (Lam.) M.Roem.

legitimate

Mabberley, D.J. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2013), Meliaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

8

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Xylocarpus moluccensis (Lam.) M.Roem.

legitimate