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 Plectranthus verticillatus

Lamiaceae Martinov

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Lamiales(ordo)
Lamiaceae(fam.)
Plectranthus(gen.)
verticillatus(sp.)

Plectranthus verticillatus (L.f.) Druce

, legitimate

, scientific

Druce, G.C. (1917), Nomenclatorial Notes: chiefly African and Australian.

The Botanical Exchange Club and Society of the British Isles Report for 1916, Suppl. 2

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640

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Ocimum verticillatum L.f.

legitimate

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Lamiaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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628

[secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Lamiaceae.

Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens

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96

[secondary reference]

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

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-

[secondary reference]

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

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-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ocymum verticillatum L.f.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Ocimum verticillatum L.f.

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Paton, A.J., Mwanyambo, M., Govaerts, R.H.A., Smitha, K., Suddee, S., Phillipson, P.B., Wilson, T.C., Forster, P.I. & Culham, A. (23 August 2019), Nomenclatural changes in Coleus and Plectranthus (Lamiaceae): a tale of more than two genera.

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146-147

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ocimum verticillatum L.f.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Plectranthus nummularius Briq.

legitimate

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

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ocimum verticillatum L.f.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Ocymum verticillatum L.f.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Plectranthus nummularius Briq.

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)