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 Convolvulus batatas

Convolvulaceae Juss.

Convolvulus batatas L.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

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154

[tax. nov.]

Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1793), Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique 1, 2(2)

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465

[basionym]

basionym of:

Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.

legitimate

Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1804), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 6(1)

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14

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.

legitimate

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

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

1088

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.

legitimate

Ooststroom, S.J. van (1940), The Convolvulaceae of Malaysia, III: The Genus Ipomoea.

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513

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. legitimate by

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

: 154

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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349

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.

legitimate

Barker, R.M. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Convolvulaceae.

Flora of Australia

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349

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.

legitimate

Wood, J.R.I., Muñoz-Rodríguez, P., Williams, B.R.M. & Scotland, R.W. (16 March 2020), A foundation monograph of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the New World.

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395

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.

legitimate