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 Lycopodium gracillimum

Selaginellaceae Willk.

Lycopodium gracillimum Kunze

, legitimate

, scientific

Kunze, G. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1846), Lycopodiaceae.

Plantae Preissianae

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109

[tax. nov.]

Type: "In depressis turfoso umbrosis sylvae prope vicum Perth, Nov. 1839. Herb. Preiss. No. 1882."

Salomon, C.E. (1883), Nomenclator der Gefasskryptogamen

:

353

[basionym]

basionym of:

Selaginella gracillima (Kunze) Spring ex Salomon

legitimate

Domin, K. (January 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

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236

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Selaginella preissiana Spring

legitimate

Alston, A.H.G. (1931), Notes on Selaginella.

Journal of Botany, British and Foreign

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257

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Selaginella gracillima (Kunze) Alston

isonym

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

Flora of the Perth Region

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44

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Selaginella gracillima (Kunze) Spring ex Salomon

legitimate

Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Ferns and Allied Plants.

Flora of Victoria

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28

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Selaginella gracillima (Kunze) Spring ex Salomon

legitimate

Jermy, A.C. & Holmes, J.S. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Selaginellaceae.

Flora of Australia

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89

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Selaginella gracillima (Kunze) Spring ex Salomon

legitimate

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

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Selaginella gracillima (Kunze) Spring ex Salomon

legitimate

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I.

Australian Systematic Botany

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12

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Swan River, Western Australia, Nov. 1839, L.Preiss 1882 (lecto, designated here: LD 1216284*; isolecto: MEL 2150420*, MEL 2150421*)."

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

12

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Selaginella gracillima (Kunze) Spring ex Salomon

legitimate