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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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 Cyathea arachnoidea

Cyatheaceae Kaulf.

Cyathea arachnoidea Hook.

, legitimate

, scientific

Hooker, W.J. in Hooker, W.J. & Baker, J.G. (1865), Synopsis Filicum Edn. 1, 1

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24

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Island of Ternate, De Vriese & Teijsmann, n. 1141."

Bailey, F.M. (1874), Handbook to the Ferns of Queensland

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55

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Cobwebby"

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

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137

[secondary reference]

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

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640

[secondary reference]

common name:

Fern-tree

[n/a]

Domin, K. (October 1914), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

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27

[secondary reference]

Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia

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200

[secondary reference]

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

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium

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338

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Cyathea celebica Blume

legitimate

Holttum, R.E. (1964), The tree-ferns of the genus Cyathea in Australasia and the Pacific.

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268

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Cyathea celebica Blume

legitimate

Bostock, P.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Cyatheaceae.

Flora of Australia

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203

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Cyathea celebica Blume

legitimate

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

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Cyathea celebica Blume

legitimate

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

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Cyathea celebica Blume

legitimate