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 Potentilla recta

Rosaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Rosales(ordo)
Rosaceae(fam.)
Potentilla(gen.)
recta(sp.)

Potentilla recta L.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

:

497

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Italia, Narbona ad agrorum margines."

Comment: Index Kewensis, in error, gives p. 499.

Maiden, J.H. (1904), Two more new weeds.

Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales

:

246

[secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J., Rees, B. & Wood, B. (March 1912), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 17.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria

:

71

[secondary reference]

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

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

173

[secondary reference]

common name:

Upright Cinquefoil

[n/a]

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

:

187

[secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Rosaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

536

[secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. & Jobson, P.C. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Rosaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

561, Fig. 115j-k

[secondary reference]

common name:

Erect Cinquefoil

[n/a]

common name:

Sulphur Cinquefoil

[n/a]

Harden, G.J. & Rodd, A.N. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Rosaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

536

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Potentilla erecta Maiden

orth. var.

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

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

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71

[secondary reference]