Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Loranthus bifurcatus
Loranthaceae Juss.
Loranthus bifurcatus Benth. , legitimate, scientific
Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 393 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 65 [secondary reference]
Tieghem, P.E.L. van (1894), Sur le groupement des espèces en genres dans les Loranthacées a calice dialysépale et anthères basifixes. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 41: 507 [basionym]
basionym of: Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. legitimate
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 460 [secondary reference]
Domin, K. (1921), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 608 [secondary reference]
Blakely, W.F. (15 December 1922), The Loranthaceae of Australia. Part iii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47(4): 392, 395-397, Pl. 40 [secondary reference]
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: 223 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. legitimate
Barlow, B.A. (1962), Studies in Australian Loranthaceae. I. Nomenclature and new additions. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 87(1): 52 [secondary reference]
Barlow, B.A. (1966), A revision of the Loranthaceae of Australia and New Zealand. Australian Journal of Botany 14(3): 459 [secondary reference]
  • Type: "Carpentaria Island H (North I., Sir Edward Pellew Group) and Groote I., R. Brown, 17–25.xii.1802 and 15.i.1803 (BM, holotype; MEL). The two collections on the sheet are indistinguishable."
  • Comment: Although listed by Barlow as "holotype", the presence of two specimens on the BM sheet means these specimens are syntypes, and the MEL specimens are isosyntypes.
Barlow, B.A. (1966), A revision of the Loranthaceae of Australia and New Zealand. Australian Journal of Botany 14(3): 459 [misapplied]
misapplied to: Amyema biniflora Barlow legitimate by Blakely, W.F. (15 December 1922), The Loranthaceae of Australia. Part iii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47(4): 392, 395-397, Pl. 40
Barlow, B.A. (1966), A revision of the Loranthaceae of Australia and New Zealand. Australian Journal of Botany 14(3): 459 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. legitimate
Barlow, B.A. (1971), Loranthaceae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 58: 19 [secondary reference]
Barlow, B.A. (1971), Loranthaceae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 58: 19 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. legitimate
[misapplied]
misapplied to: Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. legitimate by Blakely, W.F. (15 December 1922), The Loranthaceae of Australia. Part iii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47(4): 392, 395-397, Pl. 40
Barlow, B.A. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Loranthaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 28 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. legitimate
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 141 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. legitimate
Barlow, B.A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Loranthaceae. Flora of Australia 22: 112-114 [secondary reference]
Barlow, B.A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Loranthaceae. Flora of Australia 22: 112 [secondary reference]
  • Type: "Carpentaria, Island H (North Is., Sir Edward Pellew Group) and Groote Is., 17-25 Dec. 1802 & 15 Jan. 1803, R. Brown s.n.; syn, BM, CANB, MEL."
  • Comment: Although listed by Barlow as syntypes, the specimens at CANB and MEL are isosyntypes.
Barlow, B.A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Loranthaceae. Flora of Australia 22: 112 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. legitimate
Barlow, B.A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Loranthaceae. Flora of Australia 22: 112 [misapplied]
misapplied to: Amyema biniflora Barlow legitimate by Blakely, W.F. (15 December 1922), The Loranthaceae of Australia. Part iii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47(4): 392, 395-397, Pl. 40
[misapplied]
misapplied to: Amyema biniflora Barlow legitimate by Barlow, B.A. (1962), Studies in Australian Loranthaceae. I. Nomenclature and new additions. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 87(1): 52
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Loranthaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 75 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. legitimate
Barlow, B.A. (1992), Conspectus of the genus Amyema Tieghem (Loranthaceae). Blumea 36(2): 316 [secondary reference]
  • Type: "Brown s. n. (holo BM; iso CANB, MEL), Australia, Carpentaria Island H (North I., Sir Edward Pellew Group) and Groote I., 17-25.xii.1802 and 15.i.1803."
  • Comment: Although listed by Barlow as "holotype", the presence of two specimens on the BM sheet (indicated by B.A.Barlow, Aust. J. Bot. 14(3): 459 (1966)) means these specimens are syntypes, and the CANB and MEL specimens are isosyntypes.
Barlow, B.A. (1992), Conspectus of the genus Amyema Tieghem (Loranthaceae). Blumea 36(2): 316 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]
misapplied to: Amyema biniflora Barlow legitimate by Blakely, W.F. (15 December 1922), The Loranthaceae of Australia. Part iii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47(4): 392, 395-397, Pl. 40
[misapplied]
misapplied to: Amyema biniflora Barlow legitimate by Barlow, B.A. (1962), Studies in Australian Loranthaceae. I. Nomenclature and new additions. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 87(1): 52
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Amyema bifurcata (Benth.) Tiegh. legitimate
Start, A.N. & Thiele, K.R. (2023), Mistletoes of Western Australia: 53 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "From the Latin for 'two-forked', in reference to the inflorescence structure."
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