Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Baeckea ericaea

Myrtaceae Juss.

Baeckea ericaea F.Muell. ex Benth.

, legitimate

, scientific

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae.

Flora Australiensis

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77

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Victoria. In the Murray scrub, F. Mueller; Wimmera, Dallachy."

Comment: G.Bentham, Fl. Austral. 3: 77 (1867) attributes authorship of the name Baeckea ericaea to Mueller, citing "F.Muell. Fragm. i: 34", however the taxon is not published in that work (see also A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index, 344 (1991)), nor is it listed in the index to Mueller's Fragmenta. Some authors (e.g. J.H.Willis, Handb. Pl. Victoria 2nd edn, 2: 456 (1973); M.E.Trudgen in J.P.Jessop & H.R.Toelken (eds), Fl. S. Australia 4th edn, 2: 893 (1986); J.A.Jeanes in N.G.Walsh & T.J.Entwisle, Fl. Victoria 3: 1035 (1996)) have attributed authorship of Baeckea ericaea to "(F.Muell.) Benth." and list the name "Baeckea microphylla var. ericaea" as the basionym, but this name was also not published by Mueller.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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53

[secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

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144

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae.

Flora of South Australia

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403

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3

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602

[secondary reference]

Willis, J.H. (1973), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 2

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456

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Baeckea microphylla var. ericaea J.H.Willis

nom. inval., pro syn.

common name:

Mat Baeckea

[n/a]

Trudgen, M.E. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Baeckea.

Flora of South Australia

:

893

[secondary reference]

common name:

Mat baeckea

[n/a]

common name:

Mat heath-myrtle

[n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Myrtaceae.

Flora of Victoria

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1035-1036, Fig. 214c

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Baeckea microphylla var. ericaea J.H.Willis

nom. inval., pro syn.

common name:

Mat Baeckea

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Baeckea microphylla var. ericaea J.H.Willis

nom. inval., pro syn.

APC Dist.: SA, Vic

Rye, B.L. (20 January 2017), An expanded circumscription and new infrageneric classification of Rinzia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae).

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81

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "lecto: MEL 72733, here designated; ?isolecto: MEL 72734"

Etymology: "From the Latin erica (heath)."

Rye, B.L. (20 January 2017), An expanded circumscription and new infrageneric classification of Rinzia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae).

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81

[basionym]

basionym of:

Rinzia ericaea (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Rye

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

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-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Rinzia ericaea (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Rye

legitimate