Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Grevillea pterosperma
Proteaceae Juss.
Grevillea pterosperma F.Muell. , legitimate, scientific
Mueller, F.J.H. von (18 September 1854), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the colony of Victoria. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria 1: 22-23 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "In the Mallee scrub on sandhills towards the junction of the Murray and Murrumbidgee."
  • Comment: See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (24 October 1854), Second general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the Colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 14 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 208 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 68 [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 160 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 163 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 269 [secondary reference]
Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 266 BHL [secondary reference]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 212 [secondary reference]
common name: Desert Grevillea [n/a] common name: Desert Spider-flower [n/a]
George, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Proteaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 23 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 179 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 62 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 70 [secondary reference]
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 280 (plate), 315 (map) [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Grevillea sericostachya Meisn. legitimate common name: desert grevillea [n/a] common name: desert spider flower [n/a]
  • Etymology: 'From Greek, pteron, a wing, and sperma, a seed; refers to the winged seeds."
Makinson, R.O. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Grevillea. Flora of New South Wales 2: 55 [secondary reference]
McGillivray, D.J & Makinson, R.O. (1993), Grevillea, Proteaceae: a taxonomic revision: 225-226 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: Murray River towards junction with Murrumbidgee River, Vic., Dec 1854 [1853 in err.], lecto: MEL; isolecto: MEL; syn: Murray, F.Mueller, syn: K.
Olde, P.M. & Marriott, N.R. (1995), The Grevillea Book 3: 116-118 (Plate 89, fig., map) [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Grevillea sericostachya Meisn. legitimate common name: Desert Grevillea [n/a]
Makinson, R.O. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Grevillea. Flora of Victoria 3: 850-851, Fig. 172a [secondary reference]
common name: Desert Grevillea [n/a]
Makinson, R.O. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2000), Grevillea. Flora of Australia 17A: 353, Map 341 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Grevillea sericostachya Meisn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Grevillea simulans Morrison legitimate
Makinson, R.O. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Grevillea. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 66 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Grevillea sericostachya Meisn. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Grevillea sericostachya Meisn. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, NSW, Vic
Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Byng, J.W. (9 February 2018), GLOVAP Nomenclature Part 1. The Global Flora: a practical flora to vascular plant species of the world 4: 88 [basionym]
basionym of: Hakea pterosperma (F.Muell.) Christenh. & Byng legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Hakea pterosperma (F.Muell.) Christenh. & Byng legitimate taxonomic synonym: Grevillea sericostachya Meisn. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Grevillea sericostachya Meisn. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, NSW, Vic