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 Carex archeri

Cyperaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Cyperaceae(fam.)
Carex(gen.)
archeri(sp.)

Carex archeri Boott

, legitimate

, scientific

Boott, F. in Hooker, J.D. (3 September 1858), Carex.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

:

98

[tax. nov.]

Type: "(Archer, n.71.) ... Cuming's Head, Archer."

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

252

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Carex acicularis Boott

legitimate

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

Das Pflanzenreich

:

100

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Carex acicularis Boott

legitimate

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

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

491

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Carex acicularis Boott

legitimate

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

:

11

[secondary reference]

Text: "Previous record not substantiated."

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

396

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Carex.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

148

[secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

355, Fig. 71o

[secondary reference]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online

:

-

[secondary reference]

common name:

Archer's Sedge

[n/a]

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Carex acicularis Boott

legitimate

isonym:

Carex archeri Boott

isonym

misapplication: Carex pyrenaica Wahlenb. legitimate by

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

: 251

APC Dist.: NSW, Vic, Tas

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

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

:

83

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Carex acicularis Boott legitimate by

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

: 252

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

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

isonym:

Carex archeri Boott

isonym

misapplication: Carex pyrenaica Wahlenb. legitimate by

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

: 251 misapplication: Carex acicularis Boott legitimate by

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

: 252

APC Dist.: NSW, Vic, Tas