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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The query is not case sensitive.
This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Solanum aculeatissimum

Solanaceae Juss.

Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq.

, legitimate

, scientific

Jacquin, N.J. von (1787), Collectanea 1

:

100

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Oatria in zona torrida est."

Bailey, F.M. (1882), A few remarks on our naturalized solanums.

Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Queensland

:

3

BHL

[secondary reference]

Maiden, J.H. (1909), Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 20

:

1012

[secondary reference]

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

:

357

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Solanum ciliatum Lam.

legitimate

common name:

Scarlet-fruited Devil's Apple

[n/a]

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

Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia

:

78

[secondary reference]

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

Bulletin (CSIRO)

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257

[secondary reference]

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

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203

[secondary reference]

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

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

:

101

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Solanum capsicoides All.

legitimate

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

Flora of Australia

:

120

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam. 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

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

Flora of Australia

:

118

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Solanum capsicoides All.

legitimate

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

:

148

[secondary reference]

Comment: Appears in square brackets and italics as an "erroneous record".

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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418

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Solanum capsicoides All.

legitimate

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

Flora of New South Wales

:

359

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Solanum capsicoides All.

legitimate

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

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Solanum capsicoides All. legitimate by

Bailey, F.M. (1882), A few remarks on our naturalized solanums.

Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Queensland

3

: 3

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

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Solanum sisymbriifolium Lam. 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