Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Grevillea burrowa
Proteaceae Juss.
Grevillea burrowa Molyneux & Forrester , legitimate, scientific
Molyneux, W.M. & Forrester, S.G. (16 November 2015), A new species Grevillea burrowa (Proteaceae) from the Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park, North Eastern Victoria. Muelleria 34: 51-54, Figs 1, 2 (map) BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "AUSTRALIA, VICTORIA. Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park. On the Burrowa Walking Track c. 1.5 km N by foot from the junction of the Mount Burrowa Walking Track with Hinces Walking Track. On ridgeline and c. 150 metres down NNW slopes, 1.56 km SE of Mount Burrowa. 28 October 2002. 36° 06’ 03” S 147° 42’ 28” E; Alt. 1143 m, V. Stajsic 3314, W. Molyneux, S. Forrester, P. Ashton and H. Merkel. On broad rhyolite N-S running ridge line and down NW slopes. Holotype: MEL 2190712A and MEL 2299595 (same collection, comprising a dry sheet and spirit, respectively); Isotypes: AD, BRI, CANB, HO, NSW, K, NY, WELT."
  • Etymology: "The epithet recognizes the collection of the type material on a walking track to Mt. Burrowa and also its location in the Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park in north-eastern Victoria where it is apparently endemic. Unfortunately, due to the extinction of the local language groups (Luise Hercus pers. comm. 2013) the origin of the name Burrowa is not known from the Pallanganmiddang. Barry Blake (pers. comm. 2014) indicated that Booroowah, the ‘White Breasted Diver’ in Dhudhuroa, was the closest traditional name that he could find to Burrowa. It is plausible that the ‘White-breasted Sea-eagle’, also known as the White-bellied Sea-eagle, which still feeds and nests along the Murray River and its tributaries, may be the bird referred to by the Pallanganmiddang and perhaps seen hunting in the vicinity of the present day Mt Burrowa."
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: 78 [basionym]
basionym of: Hakea burrowa (Molyneux & Forrester) Christenh. & Byng legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Grevillea sp. aff. oxyantha (Mt Burrowa) [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Grevillea sp. Mt Burrowa (V.Stajsic 3314 & W.M.Molyneux) [n/a]
  • APC Dist.: Vic