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 Cuscuta epithymum

Convolvulaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Solanales(ordo)
Convolvulaceae(fam.)
Cuscuta(gen.)
epithymum(sp.)

Cuscuta epithymum (L.) L.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. in Murray, J.A. (ed.) (1774), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 13

:

140

[comb. et stat. nov.]

Type: (not cited).

basionym:

Cuscuta europaea var. epithymum L.

legitimate

Woolls, W. (1867), Notes on introduced plants occurring in the neighbourhood of Sydney.

Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany

:

38

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names.

Key to the System of Victorian Plants

:

535

[secondary reference]

Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales

:

236

[secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

:

219

[secondary reference]

common name:

Dodder

[n/a]

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

:

353

[secondary reference]

common name:

The Lesser Dodder

[n/a]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

469

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Additions and Corrections.

Flora of South Australia

:

698

[secondary reference]

common name:

Lesser Dodder

[n/a]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4

:

706, Fig. 1005

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

501

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

106

[secondary reference]

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

:

143

[secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Convolvulaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

345

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Cuscuta europaea var. epithymum L.

legitimate

common name:

Lesser Dodder

[n/a]

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

Flora of the Perth Region

:

541

[secondary reference]

common name:

Lesser Dodder

[n/a]

Johnson, R.W. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Convolvulaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

375

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Cuscuta europaea var. epithymum L.

legitimate

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Cuscutaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

376, Fig. 73a

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Cuscuta europaea var. epithymum L.

legitimate

common name:

Common Dodder

[n/a]

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

Flora of the South West

:

569

[secondary reference]

common name:

Lesser Dodder

[n/a]

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Cuscuta europaea var. epithymum L.

legitimate

misapplication: Cuscuta europaea L. legitimate by

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

: 143

APC Comment: Former records from Qld were based on poor specimens which are now considered unidentifiable but probably not this species (A.E.Holland, pers. comm. (2006)).
APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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

:

296-297, photos 8-10

[secondary reference]

common name:

Lesser Dodder

[n/a]

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

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

:

34

[secondary reference]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Cuscuta europaea var. epithymum L.

legitimate

pro parte misapplication: Cuscuta racemosa Mart. legitimate by

Ewart, A.J. (1916), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 23.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria

28(2)

: 217 pro parte misapplication: Cuscuta racemosa Mart. legitimate by

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Cuscutaceae.

Flora of Victoria

4

: 379, Fig. 73h misapplication: Cuscuta europaea L. legitimate by

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

: 143

APC Comment: Former records from Qld were based on poor specimens which are now considered unidentifiable but probably not this species (A.E.Holland, pers. comm. (2006)).
APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)