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."
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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 Hydrocotyle blepharocarpa

Araliaceae Juss.

Hydrocotyle blepharocarpa F.Muell.

, legitimate

, scientific

Mueller, F.J.H. von (July 1883), Definitions of some new Australian plants.

Southern Science Record

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175

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Upper Swan River; Miss Julia Sewell."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1

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3

[secondary reference]

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse.

Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie

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451

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

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135

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Perth Region

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508

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons.

Flora of the South West

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483

[secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6

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-

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2

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42-43, photos 1-3

[secondary reference]

Perkins, A.J. (2019), Molecular phylogenetics and species delimitation in annual species of Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) from South Western Australia.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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268

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Hydrocotyle scutellifera Benth.

legitimate

Perkins, A.J. (10 December 2019), Nomenclatural updates and a new species of annual Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) from Western Australia.

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268

[secondary reference]

Type: " ‘Upper Swan River’ [Western Australia], 1883, Miss Julia Sewell s.n. (holo: MEL 7788!; iso: MEL 7789!)."

Perkins, A.J. (10 December 2019), Nomenclatural updates and a new species of annual Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) from Western Australia.

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268

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Hydrocotyle scutellifera Benth.

legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (24 June 2021), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2020.

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12

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Hydrocotyle scutellifera Benth.

legitimate