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 Trichinium macrocephalum

Amaranthaceae Juss.

Trichinium macrocephalum R.Br.

, legitimate

, scientific

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

:

415

[tax. nov.]

Type: "(M.) v.s."

Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (14 December 1816), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 4(2)

:

620

[basionym]

basionym of:

Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1845), Amarantaceae.

Plantae Preissianae

:

627

[secondary reference]

Moquin-Tandon, C.H.B.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1849), Amarantaceae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

:

290

BHL

[secondary reference]

Type: "In Novae-Hollandiae orâ meridionali (R. Brown)..."

nomenclatural synonym:

Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

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

:

189

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

:

403

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (July 1921), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

636

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Trichinium exaltatum (Nees) Benth. legitimate by

Moquin-Tandon, C.H.B.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1849), Amarantaceae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

13(2)

: 290

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

213

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

329

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

Benl, G. (15 May 1959), Beitrag zu einer revision der Gattung Ptilotus R.Br. (Amaranthaceae) 2. Teil.

Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung Munchen

:

39

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

Benl, G. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Ptilotus.

Flora of Central Australia

:

82

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

133

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

209

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

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

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Ptilotus manglesii (Lindl.) F.Muell. legitimate by

Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1845), Amarantaceae.

Plantae Preissianae

1(4)

: 627

State Herbarium of South Australia (2007), Fact sheets.

The Electronic Flora of South Australia

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

Bean, A.R. (11 November 2008), A synopsis of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) in eastern Australia.

:

241

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Ptilotus nobilis (Lindl.) F.Muell. subsp. nobilis legitimate by

Moquin-Tandon, C.H.B.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1849), Amarantaceae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

13(2)

: 290

Bean, A.R. (11 November 2008), A synopsis of Ptilotus (Amaranthaceae) in eastern Australia.

:

239

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Ptilotus nobilis (Lindl.) F.Muell. subsp. nobilis legitimate by

Moquin-Tandon, C.H.B.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1849), Amarantaceae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

13(2)

: 290

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Ptilotus nobilis (Lindl.) F.Muell. subsp. nobilis legitimate by

Moquin-Tandon, C.H.B.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1849), Amarantaceae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

13(2)

: 290

Hammer, T.A., Davis, R.W. & Thiele, K.R. (8 May 2019), Of a different feather: two new species of featherheads from the Ptilotus macrocephalus (Amaranthaceae) complex.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

67

[secondary reference]

Type: "Port Phillip [Victoria], s. dat., Anon. s.n. (syn: BM 000895593, image! https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.bm000895593; syn: GB 0047020, image! https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.gb-0047020)."

Hammer, T.A., Davis, R.W. & Thiele, K.R. (8 May 2019), Of a different feather: two new species of featherheads from the Ptilotus macrocephalus (Amaranthaceae) complex.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

67

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate

Hammer, T.A. (12 June 2020), Taxonomic evaluation of Ptilotus manglesii (Amaranthaceae) and recognition of P. davisii for two phrase names in south-west Western Australia.

:

107

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Ptilotus manglesii (Lindl.) F.Muell. legitimate by

Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1845), Amarantaceae.

Plantae Preissianae

1(4)

: 627

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Ptilotus nobilis (Lindl.) F.Muell. legitimate by

Moquin-Tandon, C.H.B.A. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1849), Amarantaceae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

13(2)

: 290

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Ptilotus macrocephalus (R.Br.) Poir.

legitimate