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 Balaustion

Myrtaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Myrtales(ordo)
Myrtaceae(fam.)
Balaustion(gen.)

Balaustion Hook.

, legitimate

, scientific

Hooker, W.J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1852), Icones Plantarum 9

:

t. 852

[tax. nov.]

Type: Balaustion pulcherrimum Hook.

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

Flora Australiensis

:

95

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Cheynia J.Drumm. ex Harv.

legitimate

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

:

54

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Punicella Turcz.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cheynia J.Drumm. ex Harv.

legitimate

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse.

Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie

:

420

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Punicella Turcz.

legitimate

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

:

362

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Punicella Turcz.

legitimate

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

:

88

[secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. (2 June 2009), A reduced circumscription of Balaustion and description of the new genus Cheyniana (Myrtaceae : Chamelaucieae).

:

139-140

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Punicella Turcz.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cheynia J.Drumm. ex Harv.

legitimate

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Balaustium Kuntze

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Punicella Turcz.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cheynia J.Drumm. ex Harv.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA

Rye, B.L. (7 July 2022), An expanded circumscription and revision of the Western Australian genus Balaustion (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae: Hysterobaeckeinae).

:

158

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Punicella Turcz.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cheynia J.Drumm. ex Harv.

legitimate

Etymology: " 'Balaustion is an old name given to the wild flowers of the Pomegranate' (Hooker 1851)."