Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Xyris altissima
Xyridaceae C.Agardh
Xyris altissima Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd. , legitimate, scientific
Loddiges, C., Loddiges, G. & Loddiges, W. (1832), The Botanical Cabinet: t. 1900 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "We received this some years since from our friend, Mr. A. Biggs, of the Cambridge garden, who raised it from New Holland seeds."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: Originally recorded as being "raised from New Holland seeds". However, according to B.J.Conn & A.N.Doust (Austral. Syst. Bot. 10(2): 247 (1997)), this name refers to a South African species, Bobartia indica L. in the Iridaceae.