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 Osbeckia chinensis

Melastomataceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Myrtales(ordo)
Melastomataceae(fam.)
Osbeckia(gen.)
chinensis(sp.)

Osbeckia chinensis L.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

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345

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in India; in honorem Petr. Osbeck, Sveci, qui 1751. plantas Chinae & Javae periculoso itinere ediit, legit, examinavit, descripsit, communicavit."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 4(30)

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160, 166

[secondary reference]

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

Flora Australiensis

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291

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Osbeckia angustifolia D.Don

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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60

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

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209

[secondary reference]

Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C. Jnr (1943), A contribution to the knowledge of the Melastomataceae occuring in the Malay Archipelago especially in the Netherlands East Indies

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48-49

[secondary reference]

Hansen, C. (1972), Osbeckia chinensis L. and O. zeylanica L.f. (Melastomataceae).

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656

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "As lectotype of O. chinensis - I will cite the sheet in the Linnean Society of London, without the fragment."

Hansen, C. (1977), Ginkgoana, contributions to the flora of Asia and the Pacific Region 4

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49-62

[secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1

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216

[secondary reference]

Whiffin, T.P. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Melastomataceae.

Flora of Australia

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245

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: NT, Qld