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 Schoenus capillaris

Cyperaceae Juss.

Schoenus capillaris (F.Muell.) F.Muell.

, nom. illeg.

, scientific

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

:

128

BHL

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Chaetospora capillaris F.Muell.

legitimate

Comment: nom. illeg., non Sw. (1788).

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

:

215

BHL

[secondary reference]

Moore, C. (1893), Plants with their habitats, discovered to be indigenous to this Colony since the publication of the Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales ; chiefly furnished by Baron von Mueller, from unpublished Herbarium notes.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales

:

85

BHL

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Elynanthus capillaceus Benth.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

240

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Elynanthus capillaceus Benth.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Cheeseman, T.F. (1906), Cyperaceae.

Manual of the New Zealand Flora

:

789

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cladium capillaceum C.B.Clarke

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

94

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cladium capillaceum C.B.Clarke

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Fernald, M.L. (1923), Nomenclatorial transfers in Mariscus.

:

52

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Mariscus capillaceus Fernald

legitimate

Black, J.M. (1934), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 32.

Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia

:

169

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Tetraria capillaris (F.Muell.) J.M.Black

legitimate

Kükenthal, G. (1942), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. XIII.

Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis

:

182

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cladium capillaceum C.B.Clarke

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

:

153

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Tetraria capillaris (F.Muell.) J.M.Black

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Tetraria capillaris (F.Muell.) J.M.Black

legitimate

Barrett, R.L., Bruhl, J.J. & Wilson, K.L. (25 March 2021), Netrostylis, a new genus of Australasian Cyperaceae removed from Tetraria.

:

57

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Netrostylis capillaris (F.Muell.) R.L.Barrett, J.J.Bruhl & K.L.Wilson

legitimate