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 Solanum sisymbriifolium

Solanaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Solanales(ordo)
Solanaceae(fam.)
Solanum(gen.)
sisymbriifolium(sp.)

Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam.

, legitimate

, scientific

Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1794), Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique 2, 3(1)

:

25

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Ex agro Bonariense ...? Commers. herb."

Symon, D.E. (1967), Alien Solanums in Australia.

Australian Weeds Research Newsletter

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26

[secondary reference]

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

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204

[secondary reference]

Symon, D.E. (14 August 1981), A revision of the genus Solanum in Australia.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

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110-112, Figs 34, 151P, 161L, Map 12

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Solanum balbisii Dunal

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Purdie, R.W., Symon, D.E. & Haegi, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Solanaceae.

Flora of Australia

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120, Map 98

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq. legitimate by

Gardner, C.A. (1925), List of the naturalised plants of extra-tropical Western Australia.

Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia

11(8)

: 78

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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

:

149

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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418

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Perth Region

:

537

[secondary reference]

common name:

Viscid Nightshade

[n/a]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Solanaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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360, pl.16

[secondary reference]

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue

:

539

[secondary reference]

common name:

Viscid Nightshade

[n/a]

Bean, A.R. & Henderson, R.J.F. in Henderson, R.J.F. (ed.) (2002), Solanaceae.

Names and Distribution of Queensland Plants, Algae and Lichens

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189

[secondary reference]

Bean, A.R. (6 December 2004), The taxonomy and ecology of Solanum subg. Leptostemonum (Dunal) Bitter (Solanaceae) in Queensland and far north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Austrobaileya

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804-805, Map 32

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Solanum decurrens Balb.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Solanum balbisii Dunal

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

misapplication: Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq. legitimate by

Gardner, C.A. (1925), List of the naturalised plants of extra-tropical Western Australia.

Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia

11(8)

: 78

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised)