Rosaceae
Acaena

Acaena agnipila Gand.

First published in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 59: 707 (1912 publ. 1913)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. Queensland to SE. & SW. Australia. It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Distribution

Native to:

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Introduced into:

New Zealand North, New Zealand South

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • (2022). https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/6d1922ff-aa83-4e98-94b7-cebff6e3bd60. epublication.
  • Hnatiuk, R.J. (1990). Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series 11: 1-650.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (2014-continuously updated). Atlas of Living Australia http://www.ala.org.au/. [Cited as Acaena ovina.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Hnatiuk, R.J. (1990). Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series 11: 1-650.
  • Webb, C.J., Sykes, W.R. & Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988). Flora of New Zealand 4: 1-1365. Botany division, D.S.I.R., Christchurch.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0