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 Myrmecodia beccarii

Rubiaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Gentianales(ordo)
Rubiaceae(fam.)
Myrmecodia(gen.)
beccarii(sp.)

Myrmecodia beccarii Hook.f.

, legitimate

, scientific

Hooker, J.D. (July 1886), Myrmecodia beccarii.

Curtis's Botanical Magazine

:

t. 6883

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: "For the plant here figured, the Royal Gardens are indebted to the liberality of Messrs. Veitch, who imported it from Brisbane in 1884, with the information that it was found in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and is extremely rare there ..."

Etymology: "I have named it after the eminent botanist and traveller alluded to above." [i.e. Odoardo Beccari (1843–1920)]

Britten, J. (1897), Notes on Myrmecodia.

Journal of Botany, British and Foreign

:

192

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Epidendroides tetrandra Britten

nom. inval., pro syn.

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

:

253

[secondary reference]

common name:

Ant-house

[n/a]

Domin, K. (1929), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

1180

[secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1

:

204

[secondary reference]

common name:

Ant-house Plant

[n/a]

Huxley, C.R. & Jebb, M.H.P. (1993), The tuberous epiphytes of the Rubiaceae 5: A revision of Myrmecodia.

:

301, Fig. 10

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

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311

[secondary reference]

Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3

:

23

[secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

:

446

[secondary reference]

common name:

Prickly Ant Plant

[n/a]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Epidendroides tetrandra Britten

nom. inval., pro syn.

APC Dist.: Qld