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 Scleria polycarpa

Cyperaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Cyperaceae(fam.)
Scleria(gen.)
polycarpa(sp.)

Scleria polycarpa Boeckeler

, legitimate

, scientific

Boeckeler, J.O. (July 1874), Die Cyperaceen den Königlichen Herbariums zu Berlin.

Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde

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509

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Insulae Fichi."

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

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208

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Scleria margaritifera Willd.

nom. illeg.

Kern, J.H. (1961), Florae Malesianae Precursores XXX. The genus Scleria in Malaysia.

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183-184

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Scleria graeffeana Boeckeler

legitimate

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

738

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Scleria graeffeana Boeckeler

legitimate

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

27

[secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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1105

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

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303

[secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

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569

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Scleria margaritifera Willd.

nom. illeg.

taxonomic synonym:

Scleria graeffeana Boeckeler

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Scleria ternifolia Domin

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld