Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Petrophile
Proteaceae Juss.
Petrophile R.Br. ex Knight , legitimate, scientific
Knight, J. (1809), On the cultivation of plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae: xii, 92 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Petrophile pulchella (Schrad. & Wendl.) R.Br.
Brown, R. (8 March 1810), On the Proteaceae of Jussieu. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 10(1): 67 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 65 [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 166 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 439 [secondary reference]
Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 23-24, 195 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 158 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Greek petra, rock; philos, loving."
Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 262 [secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 180 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 182 [secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Proteaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 5-6 [secondary reference]
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Proteaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 350-351 [secondary reference]
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 498-500 (map) [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "From Greek, petra, a rock, and philos, beloved, thus a lover of rocks, referring to what Brown perceived as a common habitat of members of the genus."
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Petrophile. Flora of New South Wales 2: 22 [secondary reference]
common name: Conesticks [n/a]
Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16: 149 [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Petrophila R.Br. orth. var.
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Petrophile. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 23 [secondary reference]
common name: Conesticks [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 842 [secondary reference]
Jessup, L.W. (22 April 2002), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 2 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Petrophila R.Br. orth. var.
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Petrophila R.Br. orth. var. orthographic variant: Petrophylla F.Cels orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Atylus Salisb. nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Arthrostygma Steud. nom. inval., pro syn.
  • APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW
Weston, P.H. & Barker, N.P. (13 November 2006), A new suprageneric classification of the Proteaceae, with an annotated checklist of genera. Telopea 11(3): 332 [secondary reference]
Weston, P.H. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007), Proteaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 9: 387 [secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 651 [secondary reference]