Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Astelia nervosa
Asteliaceae Dumort.
Astelia nervosa Hook.f. , legitimate, scientific
Hooker, J.D. (5 December 1853), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae 1(4): 260 [primary reference]
  • Type: "Northern and Middle Islands, Banks and Solander, etc., in boggy ground. Ruahine mountains, Colenso. Mountains above Nelson, 5000 feet, Bidwell. Middle Island, Lyall. Akaroa, Raoul."
Willis, J.H. (1939), The occurrence of Astelia nervosa in Victoria. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1939(4): 175 [secondary reference]
Moore, L.B. (1966), New Zealand Journal of Botany 4: 208 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "Mountains above Nelson, 5000 feet, Bidwell. Bidwell n. 80 in Herb. Hook. ... The portion of Bidwell's n. 80 chosen as lectotype is that on the sheet at Kew numbered 118, and consists of a male inflorescence and several leaves."
Moore, L.B. (1966), New Zealand Journal of Botany 4: 201-240 (208-212) [secondary reference]