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 Metrosideros decora

Myrtaceae Juss.

Metrosideros decora Salisb.

, legitimate

, scientific

Salisbury, R.A. (1796), Prodromus Stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton Vigentium

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352

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Sponte nascentem juxta Port Jackson, legit Dav. Burton."

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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522

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Metrosideros lanceolata Sm.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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

Flora Australiensis

:

143

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Melaleuca genistifolia Sm.

legitimate

Britten, J. (1916), The plants of Salisbury's "Prodromus" (1796).

Journal of Botany, British and Foreign

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62

[basionym]

basionym of:

Melaleuca decora (Salisb.) Britten

legitimate

Domin, K. (1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

1011

[basionym]

basionym of:

Melaleuca decora (Salisb.) Domin

isonym

Blake, S.T. (1968), A revision of Melaleuca leucadendron and its allies (Myrtaceae).

Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium

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67

[secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Myrtaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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144

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Melaleuca decora (Salisb.) Britten

legitimate

Byrnes, N.B. (24 July 1986), A revision of Melaleuca L. (Myrtaceae) in northern and eastern Australia, 3.

Austrobaileya

:

265

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Melaleuca decora (Salisb.) Britten

legitimate

Craven, L.A. & Lepschi, B.J. (21 December 1999), Enumeration of the species and infraspecific taxa of Melaleuca (Myrtaceae) occurring in Australia and Tasmania.

Australian Systematic Botany

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871

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Melaleuca decora (Salisb.) Britten

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Melaleuca decora (Salisb.) Britten

legitimate