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 Spergula apetala

Caryophyllaceae Juss.

Spergula apetala Labill.

, legitimate

, scientific

Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1805), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 1(13-14)

:

112, t. 142

[tax. nov.]

Type: "in capile Van-Diemen."

Fenzl, E. (1836), Acanthophyllum C.A.Meyer eine neue planzengattung aus den ordnung der Sileneen, naher erlautert und von einer characteristik aller gattungen der Alsineen begleitet.

Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte

:

49

BHL

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Colobanthus billardierei var. ß Fenzl

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.

Druce, G.C. (1917), Nomenclatorial Notes: chiefly African and Australian.

The Botanical Exchange Club and Society of the British Isles Report for 1916, Suppl. 2

:

616

[basionym]

basionym of:

Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce

legitimate

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

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

74

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce

legitimate

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

Flora of Victoria

:

247

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce

legitimate

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets.

The Electronic Flora of South Australia

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce

legitimate

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census.

A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

:

30

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Colobanthus apetalus (Labill.) Druce

legitimate