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 Acanthus

Acanthaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Lamiales(ordo)
Acanthaceae(fam.)
Acanthus(gen.)

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2

:

639 (err. typ. 939)

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5

:

286

[secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

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480

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

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548

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Dilivaria Comm. ex A.Juss.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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99

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Dilivaria Comm. ex A.Juss.

legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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374

[secondary reference]

Green, M.L. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species.

Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists

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170

[secondary reference]

Type: Acanthus mollis L.

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

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539

[secondary reference]

Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. in Farr, E.R., Leussink, J.A. & Stafleu, F.A. (ed.) (1979), Index Nominum Genericorum 1

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539

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Dilivaria Comm. ex A.Juss.

legitimate

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants

:

963, 965

[secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

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64-75

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Dilivaria Comm. ex A.Juss.

legitimate

APC Dist.: NT, SA (naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Barker, R.M. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Acanthaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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844

[secondary reference]

Jarvis, C.E., Barrie, F.R., Allan, D.M. & Reveal, J.L. (1993), A List of Linnaean Generic Names and their Types.

Regnum Vegetabile

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14

[secondary reference]

Type: "A. mollis L. - Lectotype [sic] (designated here by Brummitt) Herb. Clifford: 326, Acanthus No. 1(BM)."

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Acanthaceae.

Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia

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164

[secondary reference]

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

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8

[secondary reference]

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

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6

[secondary reference]

Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (2010), Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edn. 6

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-

[secondary reference]