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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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 Sphaeropteris

Cyatheaceae Kaulf.

Sphaeropteris Bernh.

, legitimate

, scientific

Bernhardi, J.J. in Schrader, H.A. (ed.) (1801), Tentamen alterum filices in genera redigendi.

Journal für die Botanik

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122, t. 1(1).

[tax. nov.]

Type: Sphaeropteris medullaris (G.Forster) Bernh.

Tindale, M.D. (26 June 1956), The Cyatheaceae of Australia.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium

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337

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Cyathea Sm. subg. Cyathea

legitimate

Holttum, R.E. (December 1963), Cyatheaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series II

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72

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

Holttum, R.E. (December 1963), Cyatheaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series II

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125

[basionym]

basionym of:

Cyathea subsect. Sphaeropteris (Bernh.) Holttum

legitimate

Holttum, R.E. (December 1963), Cyatheaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series II

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124

[basionym]

basionym of:

Cyathea sect. Sphaeropteris (Bernh.) Holttum

legitimate

Tryon, R. (1970), Contributions of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 200

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24

[secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Cyatheaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

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50

[secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

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403

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

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

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I.

Australian Systematic Botany

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36

[secondary reference]

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

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate