Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Cyperaceae Juss.
Eleocharis pusilla R.Br.
, legitimate , scientific
Brown, R. (27 March 1810) , Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805 :
225
[tax. nov.]
Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1 November 1817) , Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 5(1) :
103
[basionym]
basionym of:
Scirpus pusillus ( R.Br.) Poir.
nom. illeg.
Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824) , Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1 :
204
[replaced synonym]
replaced synonym of:
Scirpus pumilio Spreng.
legitimate
Bentham, G. (March 1878) , Flora Australiensis 7 :
297
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Scirpus pumilio Spreng.
legitimate
Rodway, L. (1903) , The Tasmanian Flora :
241
[taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of:
Eleocharis acicularis ( L.) Roem. & Schult.
legitimate
Domin, K. (1915) , Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85) :
447
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Scirpus pusillus ( R.Br.) Poir.
nom. illeg.
nomenclatural synonym:
Scirpus pumilio Spreng.
legitimate
misapplication:
Eleocharis acicularis ( L.) Roem. & Schult.
legitimate
by Mueller, F.J.H. von (September 1874) , Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(69) : 240
misapplication:
Eleocharis acicularis ( L.) Roem. & Schult.
legitimate
by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889) , Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants : 211
misapplication:
Eleocharis acicularis ( L.) Roem. & Schult.
legitimate
by Moore, C. (1893) , Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales : 451
Blake, S.T. (1939) , A monograph of the genus Eleocharis in Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 50(12) :
106-107
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis acicularis ( L.) Roem. & Schult.
legitimate
Black, J.M. (1943) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1 :
160
[secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains :
493
[secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory :
85
[secondary reference]
common name:
Small Spike Rush
[n/a]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981) , Plants of Western New South Wales :
166
[secondary reference]
common name:
Small Spike-rush
[n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
14
[secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 :
40
[secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987) , Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26 :
25
[secondary reference]
Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3 :
291, Fig. 42O
[secondary reference]
common name:
Small Spikerush
[n/a]
Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4 :
373
[secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994) , Eleocharis. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B :
108
[secondary reference]
common name:
Small Spike-rush
[n/a]
Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2 :
327-328, Fig. 67a-c
[secondary reference]
common name:
Small Spike-rush
[n/a]
National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009) , PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online :
-
[secondary reference]
Western Australian Herbarium (2011) , FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6 :
-
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Heleocharis pusilla F.Muell.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus acicularis L.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus pusilla Poir.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus pusillus ( R.Br.) Poir.
nom. illeg.
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus pumilio Spreng.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Heleocharis acicularis var. elongata Benth.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Eleocharis acicularis var. elongata Benth.
legitimate
misapplication:
Eleocharis acicularis ( L.) Roem. & Schult.
legitimate
by Bentham, G. (March 1878) , Flora Australiensis 7 : 297
misapplication:
Eleocharis striatula É.Desv.
legitimate
by Domin, K. (1915) , Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85) : 447
misapplication:
Eleocharis acicularis ( L.) Roem. & Schult.
legitimate
by Black, J.M. (1922) , Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1 : 92
APC Comment:
R.Brown, Prodr. 224 (1810), indicates but does not validly make the combination Eleocharis acicularis . A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2607 (1991) stated that Poiret did not validly make the combination Scirpus pusillus . However, under Article 33.1 of the 2006 (Vienna) edition of the ICBN, this name is considered to be validly published.
APC Dist.:
WA, NT, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016) , Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island :
85
[secondary reference]
misapplication:
Eleocharis acicularis ( L.) Roem. & Schult.
legitimate
by Rodway, L. (1903) , The Tasmanian Flora : 241