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 Banksia elegans

Proteaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Proteanae(superordo)
Proteales(ordo)
Proteaceae(fam.)
Banksia(gen.)
elegans(sp.)

Banksia elegans Meisn.

, legitimate

, scientific

Meisner, C.D.F. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), New Proteaceae of Australia.

Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany

:

119

[tax. nov.]

Type: Drummond, coll. vi. n. 200.

Comment: Given under BANKSIA L.f. (nom. cons.).

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

:

72

[secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2

:

582

[basionym]

basionym of:

Sirmuellera elegans (Meisn.) Kuntze

legitimate

George, A.S. (11 September 1981), The genus Banksia L.f. (Proteaceae).

:

366-367. Figs 4H, 56B, 57 (map)

BHL

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "Lecto (here chosen): BM; iso: CGE, K, LD, MEL (3 sheets), P, U."

nomenclatural synonym:

Sirmuellera elegans (Meisn.) Kuntze

legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

58

[secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family

:

95 (map)

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Sirmuellera elegans (Meisn.) Kuntze

legitimate

common name:

elegant banksia

[n/a]

Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora

:

108, 138

[secondary reference]

Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names

:

-

[secondary reference]

common name:

Elegant Banksia

[n/a]

George, A.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1999), Banksia.

Flora of Australia

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221, Map 225

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Sirmuellera elegans (Meisn.) Kuntze

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Sirmuellera elegans (Meisn.) Kuntze

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Banksia elegans Fraser Road form (A.C.Burns 27)

[n/a]

APC Dist.: WA