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 Hibiscus sturtii

Malvaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Malvales(ordo)
Malvaceae(fam.)
Hibiscus(gen.)
sturtii(sp.)

Hibiscus sturtii Hook.

, legitimate

, scientific

Hooker, W.J. in Mitchell, T.L. (1848), Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia

:

363

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not cited).

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

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216

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (September 1877), List of the plants obtained during Mr. C. Giles's travels in Australia in 1875 and 1876.

Journal of Botany, British and Foreign

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271

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Plants of North-Western Australia.

Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council

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6

[secondary reference]

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

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15, 141

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1

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4

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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26

BHL

[secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

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54

[secondary reference]

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

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61

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae.

Flora of South Australia

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381

[secondary reference]

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

Bibliotheca Botanica

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960

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3

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566

[secondary reference]

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

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143

[secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Malvaceae.

Flora of Central Australia

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209. Figs 240B & 242A

[secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2

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156

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

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113

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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67

[secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Malvaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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330

[secondary reference]

common name:

Hill Hibiscus

[n/a]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Malvaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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220-222, Fig. 60F, G

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1

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38

[secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Malvaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

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330

[secondary reference]

common name:

Hill Hibiscus

[n/a]