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 Aotus gracillima

Fabaceae Lindl.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Fabales(ordo)
Fabaceae(fam.)
Aotus(gen.)
gracillima(sp.)

Aotus gracillima Meisn.

, legitimate

, scientific

Meisner, C.D.F. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1844), Leguminosae.

Plantae Preissianae

:

59

[tax. nov.]

Type: "inter frutices in depressis arenosis prope oppidum Perth d. 20. Nov. 1839. Herb. Preiss. No. 863. (Drummond n. 246 et coll. I.)."

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2

:

90

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Aotus intermedia Meisn.

legitimate

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

:

35

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1896), Exhibition of specimens.

The Victorian Naturalist

:

114

[basionym]

basionym of:

Dillwynia gracillima (Meisn.) F.Muell.

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

:

251

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

:

91

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Perth Region

:

239

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the South West

:

732

[secondary reference]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Aotus gracillima Meisn. var. gracillima

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Dillwynia gracillima (Meisn.) F.Muell.

legitimate

pro parte misapplication: Aotus ericoides (Vent.) G.Don legitimate by

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia

: 50

APC Dist.: WA