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 Eichhornia speciosa

Pontederiaceae Kunth

Eichhornia speciosa Kunth

, legitimate

, scientific

Kunth, K.S. (1843), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 4

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131

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Provincia Minarum, instagnis ad fluvium St. Francisci, prope vicum Malhada."

Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 5

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1644

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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559

[secondary reference]

common name:

Water Hyacinth

[n/a]

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

Bibliotheca Botanica

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512

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms

legitimate

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

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180

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms

legitimate

Backer, C.A. (December 1951), Pontederiaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

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259

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms

legitimate

Evans, O.D. (1966), Pontederiaceae.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series

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2

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms

legitimate

Aston, H.I. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Pontederiaceae.

Flora of Australia

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52

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms

legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Pontederiaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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52

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pontederia crassipes Mart.

legitimate