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 Sparaxis

Iridaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Asparagales(ordo)
Iridaceae(fam.)
Sparaxis(gen.)

Sparaxis Ker Gawl.

, legitimate

, scientific

Sims, J. (1 November 1801), Ixia bicolor: Ringent Ixia.

Curtis's Botanical Magazine

:

sub t. 548, adnot.

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6

:

399

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

:

203

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "From Greek sparasso, I tear; alluding to the torn summits of the spathe"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

:

447

[secondary reference]

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

:

21

[secondary reference]

Cooke, D.A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Iridaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

56

[secondary reference]

Type: Sparaxis bulbifera Ker Gawler

Perry, G. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Iridaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

:

802-803

[secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

:

418

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Synnotia Sweet

legitimate

Clifford, H.T., Conran, J.G. & Thongpukdee, A. (1992), Australian Lilies: Native and Naturalised species.

Australian Plants

:

370

[secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Brown, E.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Iridaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

127

[secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Iridaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

710

[secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Iridaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

415

[secondary reference]

Goldblatt, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Iridaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

:

331

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1

:

328

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Synnotia Sweet

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

:

809

[secondary reference]

Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J.C. (2013), Systematics and biology of the Cape genus Sparaxis (Iridaceae).

:

18

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Synnotia Sweet

legitimate

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

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Synnotia Sweet

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)