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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
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 Desmodium biarticulatum

Fabaceae Lindl.

Desmodium biarticulatum (L.) F.Muell.

, legitimate

, scientific

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1861), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 2(15)

:

121

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Hedysarum biarticulatum L.

legitimate

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

:

231

BHL

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Dicerma biarticulatum (L.) DC.

legitimate

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

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40

[secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1

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197

[basionym]

basionym of:

Meibomia biarticulatum (L.) Kuntze

legitimate

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

:

139

[secondary reference]

Gagnepain, F. (1916), Un Genre Meconnu: Aphyllodium.

Notulae Systematicae (Paris)

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255

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Aphyllodium biarticulatum (L.) Gagnep.

legitimate

Domin, K. (October 1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

766

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Hedysarum biarticulatum L.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Dicerma biarticulatum (L.) DC.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Meibomia biarticulatum (L.) Kuntze

legitimate

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

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242

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Dicerma biarticulatum (L.) DC.

legitimate

Knaap-van Meeuwen, M.S. (1962), Preliminary revisions of some genera of Malaysian Papilionaceae V - a census of the genus Desmodium.

:

246-247

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Desmodium novae-hollandiae Domin

legitimate

Ohashi, H. (15 February 1973), The Asiatic species of Desmodium and its allied genera (Leguminosae).

Ginkgoana, contributions to the flora of Asia and the Pacific Region

:

252

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Dicerma biarticulatum (L.) DC.

legitimate

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

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94

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae).

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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397

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Dicerma biarticulatum (L.) DC.

legitimate

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2

:

69, Fig. 21

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Dicerma biarticulatum (L.) DC.

legitimate

Pedley, L. (25 January 1999), Desmodium Desv. (Fabaceae) and related genera in Australia: a taxonomic revision.

Austrobaileya

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216

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Aphyllodium biarticulatum (L.) Gagnep.

legitimate

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

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Aphyllodium biarticulatum (L.) Gagnep.

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Aphyllodium biarticulatum (L.) Gagnep.

legitimate