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 Scaevola collaris

Goodeniaceae R.Br.

Scaevola collaris F.Muell.

, legitimate

, scientific

Mueller, F.J.H. von (October 1859), Report on the Plants Collected During Mr. Babbage's Expedition into the North West Interior of South Australia in 1858.

Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly

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15

[tax. nov.]

Type: "On sand ridges near Wonnomulla"

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

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92

BHL

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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88

[secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2

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378

[basionym]

basionym of:

Lobelia collaris (F.Muell.) Kuntze

legitimate

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae.

Flora of South Australia

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564

[secondary reference]

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

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830

[secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

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262

BHL

[secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Goodeniaceae, Brunoniaceae.

Flora of Central Australia

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359

[secondary reference]

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

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159

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

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39

[secondary reference]

Carolin, R.C. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1992), Scaevola.

Flora of Australia

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103, Fig. 55, Map 115

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Lobelia collaris (F.Muell.) Kuntze

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Scaevola decurrens W.Fitzg.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

Carolin, R.C. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Goodeniaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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467

[secondary reference]

Shepherd, K.A., Lepschi, B.J., Johnson, E.A., Gardner, A.G., Sessa, E.B. & Jabaily, R.S. (7 July 2020), The concluding chapter: recircumscription of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) to include four allied genera with an updated infrageneric classification.

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87

[basionym]

basionym of:

Goodenia collaris (F.Muell.) K.A.Sheph.

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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17

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Goodenia collaris (F.Muell.) K.A.Sheph.

legitimate

Brown, G.K. (December 2021), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2020 to 2021.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2021

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9

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Goodenia collaris (F.Muell.) K.A.Sheph.

legitimate

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

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Goodenia collaris (F.Muell.) K.A.Sheph.

legitimate