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 Verbascum blattaria

Scrophulariaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Lamiales(ordo)
Scrophulariaceae(fam.)
Verbascum(gen.)
blattaria(sp.)

Verbascum blattaria L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1

:

178

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Europe Australioris locis argillaceis."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (24 October 1854), Second general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the Colony.

Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly

:

14

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

:

473

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names.

Key to the System of Victorian Plants

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535

[secondary reference]

Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales

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236

[secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

144

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

:

228

[secondary reference]

common name:

Mullein

[n/a]

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

:

358

[secondary reference]

common name:

Moth Mullein

[n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

512

[secondary reference]

common name:

Moth Mullein

[n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

:

324

[secondary reference]

common name:

Moth Mullein

[n/a]

common name:

Spurious Mullein

[n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

201

[secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Verbascum.

Flora of New South Wales

:

566-567

[secondary reference]

common name:

Moth Mullein

[n/a]

Barker, W.R. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Scrophulariaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

499, Fig. 97c

APC

[secondary reference]

common name:

Moth Mullein

[n/a]

APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

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77

[secondary reference]