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 Nesaea repens

Lythraceae J.St.-Hil.

Nesaea repens W.Fitzg.

, legitimate

, scientific

Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia

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181

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Fitzroy River, near the junction of the Lennard and Barker Rivers (W.V.F.)."

Mitchell, A.S. (15 October 1976), A summary of the family Lythraceae in the Northern Territory (with additional comments on Australian material).

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

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58

[secondary reference]

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

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119

[secondary reference]

Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Nesaea.

Flora of Australia

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109

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lythraceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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493, Fig. 152F

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census

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-

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Lythrum sp. (A.S.Mitchell, 1976)

[n/a]

APC Dist.: WA, NT

Graham, S.A.T. & Gandhi, K. (2013), Nomenclatural changes resulting from the transfer of Nesaea and Hionanthera to Ammannia (Lythraceae).

Harvard Papers in Botany

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85

[secondary reference]

Comment: Graham & Gandhi list Nesaea repens as a nomen nudum, citing "J. & Proc. Roy. Soc. Western Australia 3:104, 1918". Fitzgerald initially gives the name on p. 104 as part of a proposed list of new species, but it is validly published with a description on p. 181.

Barrett, R.L. (1 May 2014), Ammannia fitzgeraldii, a nom. nov. for Nesaea repens (Lythraceae).

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101

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: (here designated): near junction of Lennard and Barker Rivers, Western Australia, 5 May 1905, W.V. Fitzgerald 545 (lecto: PERTH 01604570; isolecto: NSW 210107 n.v.).

Barrett, R.L. (1 May 2014), Ammannia fitzgeraldii, a nom. nov. for Nesaea repens (Lythraceae).

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101

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Ammannia fitzgeraldii R.L.Barrett

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Ammannia muelleri (Hewson) S.A.Graham & Gandhi

legitimate