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 Metrosideros quinquenervia

Myrtaceae Juss.

Metrosideros quinquenervia Cav.

, legitimate

, scientific

Cavanilles, A.J. (1797), Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum 4(1)

:

19, t. 333

[tax. nov.]

Type: "in Nova Hollandia prope portum Jackson"

Dryander, J.C. in Koenig, K.D.E. & Sims, J. (ed.) (1 September 1806), Chloris Novae Hollandiae; or, Catalogue of the Plants of New Holland and Van Dieman's Island hitherto published, as far as they have come to the knowledge of J. Dryander.

Annals of Botany

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527

[secondary reference]

Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (3 September 1814), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 3(2)

:

685

[doubtful taxonomic synonym]

doubtful taxonomic synonym of:

Metrosideros coriacea Poir.

nom. illeg.

Blake, S.T. (1958), New and critical genera and species of Myrtaceae, subfamily Leptospermoideae, from eastern Australia.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland

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76

[basionym]

basionym of:

Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T.Blake

legitimate

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

143

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T.Blake

legitimate

Craven, L.A. & Lepschi, B.J. (21 December 1999), Enumeration of the species and infraspecific taxa of Melaleuca (Myrtaceae) occurring in Australia and Tasmania.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

899

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T.Blake

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T.Blake

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S.T.Blake

legitimate