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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You will get suggestions as you type in your query, they tell you what your query will return, and you can select one for an exact match.
The query is not case sensitive.
This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Carex acicularis

Cyperaceae Juss.

Carex acicularis Boott

, legitimate

, scientific

Boott, F. in Hooker, J.D. (5 December 1853), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae 1(4)

:

280, t. 63c

[tax. nov.]

Type: "North Island; top of the Ruahine mountains, Colenso."

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

:

437

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Carex pyrenaica Wahlenb. legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(70)

: 251

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

:

129

[secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

252

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Carex pyrenaica Wahlenb.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Carex archeri Boott

legitimate

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1909), Cyperaceae - Caricoideae.

Das Pflanzenreich

:

100

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Carex archeri Boott

legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

491

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Carex archeri Boott

legitimate

misapplication: Carex pyrenaica Wahlenb. legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(70)

: 251

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

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Carex archeri Boott

legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census.

A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

:

83

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Carex archeri Boott legitimate by

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

: 252

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Carex archeri Boott legitimate by

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

: 252