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 Colobanthus affinis

Caryophyllaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Caryophyllanae(superordo)
Caryophyllales(ordo)
Caryophyllaceae(fam.)
Colobanthus(gen.)
affinis(sp.)

Colobanthus affinis (Hook.) Hook.f.

, legitimate

, scientific

Hooker, J.D. (24 October 1855), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 1(1)

:

45

BHL

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Spergula affinis Hook.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae.

The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria

:

212

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Colobanthus billardierei Fenzl

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

:

161

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Colobanthus billardierei Fenzl

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1

:

70

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce

legitimate

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

74

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Spergula affinis Hook.

legitimate

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1

:

170-171, Fig. 161

[secondary reference]

common name:

Alpine colobanth

[n/a]

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

:

97

[secondary reference]

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Caryophyllaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

273

[secondary reference]

Orchard, A.E. (1993), Caryophyllaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

126-127

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Spergula affinis Hook.

legitimate

West, J.G. & Cowley, K.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Colobanthus.

Flora of Victoria

:

247, Fig. 47e

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Spergula affinis Hook.

legitimate

common name:

Alpine Colobanth

[n/a]

APC Dist.: NSW, Vic, Tas

Doust, A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Caryophyllaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

273

[secondary reference]

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

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Colobanthus sp. Macquarie Island (R.D.Seppelt 12156) Australian National Herbarium [n/a] by

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

Edn. 2, 1

: 74

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online

:

-

[secondary reference]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

:

29

[secondary reference]