Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Colchicaceae DC.
Wurmbea Thunb.
, legitimate , scientific
Thunberg, C.P. (1781) , Nova Genera Plantarum 1 :
18
[tax. nov.]
Type:
Wurmbea capensis Thunb.
Etymology:
"Nomen dedimus in honorem D ni FR. v. WURMBS, Lib. Baronis & hodie in Batavia Societat. ind. orient. Mercator. celebr. Societ. Scientiar. Batav. Secretar. Histor. naturalis uti & aliarum scientiarum peritiss. eorumque Cultorum Patroni faventissimi."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants :
117
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Anguillaria R.Br.
nom. cons.
pro parte taxonomic synonym:
Melanthium L.
legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889) , Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants :
198
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Anguillaria R.Br.
nom. cons.
pro parte taxonomic synonym:
Melanthium L.
legitimate
Sulman, F. (1913) , A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1 :
185-186, 198
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
Named after F.V. Wurmbe, a Dutch naturalist.
Macfarlane, T.D. (30 December 1980) , A revision of Wurmbea (Liliaceae) in Australia. Brunonia 3(2) :
145-208
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Wurmbaea Steud.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Anguillaria R.Br.
nom. cons.
Macfarlane, T.D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Wurmbea. Flora of Central Australia :
421
[secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 :
51
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Anguillaria R.Br.
nom. cons.
Macfarlane, T.D. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987) , Wurmbea. Flora of Australia 45 :
387-404
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Anguillaria R.Br.
nom. cons.
taxonomic synonym:
Anguillaria 2. Glossocodon Endl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Anguillaria sect. Glossocodon ( Endl.) Pfeiff.
legitimate
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987) , Wurmbea. Flora of the Perth Region 2 :
787
[secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Liliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3 :
40
[secondary reference]
Brummitt, R.K. (1992) , Vascular Plant Families and Genera :
34
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Anguillaria R.Br.
nom. cons.
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Colchicaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4 :
110
[secondary reference]
Conran, J.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Liliaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2 :
682
[secondary reference]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994) , Liliaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B :
396
[secondary reference]
Nordenstam, R.B. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998) , Colchicaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3 :
182
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1 :
259
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Wurmbaea Steud.
orth. var.
orthographic variant:
Wurmbsea F.Muell.
orth. var.
orthographic variant:
Anguillaraea T.Post & Kuntze
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Anguillaria R.Br.
nom. cons.
taxonomic synonym:
Anguillaria sect. Glossocodon ( Endl.) Pfeiff.
legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3 :
913
[secondary reference]
Manning, J.C. & Goldblatt, P. (2012) , Plants of the greater Cape floristic region: 1: The Core Cape Flora. Strelitzia 29 :
803-804
[secondary reference]