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 Quisqualis indica

Combretaceae R.Br.

Quisqualis indica L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1762), Species Plantarum Edn. 2, 1

:

556

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in India."

Webb, L.J. (1948), Guide to the medicinal and poisonous plants of Queensland.

Bulletin (CSIRO)

:

32

[secondary reference]

Exell, A.W. (March 1954), Combretaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

547-548

[secondary reference]

Byrnes, N.B. (1977), A revision of Combretaceae in Australia.

Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium

:

64-65

[secondary reference]

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

:

119

[secondary reference]

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

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

21

[secondary reference]

Pedley, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Combretaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

256

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), ChI, NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Combretaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

247

[secondary reference]

common name:

Rangoon Creeper

[n/a]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2

:

143, Fig. 45

[secondary reference]

common name:

Rangoon Creeper

[n/a]

DeFilipps, R.A. (1998), Useful plants of the Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies

:

277

[basionym]

basionym of:

Combretum indicum (L.) DeFilipps

legitimate

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines

:

Code 2243

[secondary reference]

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

:

127

[secondary reference]

common name:

Rangoon Creeper

[n/a]

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (24 June 2021), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2020.

:

17

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Combretum indicum (L.) DeFilipps

legitimate

Brown, G.K. (December 2021), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2020 to 2021.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2021

:

9

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Combretum indicum (L.) DeFilipps

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Combretum indicum (L.) DeFilipps

legitimate