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 Symplocos cochinchinensis var. gittinsii

Symplocaceae Desf.

Symplocos cochinchinensis var. gittinsii Noot.

, legitimate

, scientific

Nooteboom, H.P. (1975), Revision of the Symplocaceae of the Old World - New Caledonia excepted.

Leiden Botanical Series

:

162

[tax. nov.]

Type: "G.H. Gittons 494 (BRI) ... N. Kennedy Distr., Mt. Spec Range"

Comment: Although Nooteboom later indicated (Brunonia 4(2): 321 (1981)) that his original misspelling of the varietal epithet as "gittonsii" had to be retained, it is treated here as an error to be corrected under ICBN Art. 60.1 (Vienna Code (2006)).

Hyland, B.P.M. (1982), A revised card key to rainforest trees of North Queensland

:

45, 120, 146, Code 250

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Symplocos sp. aff. S. stawellii

[n/a]

common name:

White Hazelwood

[n/a]

Nooteboom, H.P. (26 February 1982), A revision of the Australian species of Symplocos (Symplocaceae).

:

321-323, Fig. 10 (map), 11

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: Qld

Text: "This species is named after the collector, whose name is C. H. Gittins and not G. H. Gittons as erroneously published, through misinterpretation of the field label, with the original description. Despite this error, the name 'gittonsii' must be retained as originally published."

Christophel, D.C. & Hyland, B.P.M. in Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Leaf Atlas of Australian Tropical Rain Forest Trees.

Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system

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20, 39, 246, pl. 184(d), Code 250

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 1

:

97, 133, 186, Code 250

[secondary reference]

common name:

White Hazelwood

[n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 2

:

534, Code 250

[secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Fruits of the Rainforest

:

264-265, Fig. 552

[secondary reference]

common name:

White Hazelwood

[n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

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312

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs.

Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs

:

89

[secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

:

537

[secondary reference]

common name:

Gittin's Hazelwood

[n/a]

common name:

White Hazelwood

[n/a]

Jessup, L.W. (1 December 2011), A taxonomic revision of Symplocos Jacq. (Symplocaceae) in Australia.

Austrobaileya

:

238

[basionym]

basionym of:

Symplocos gittinsii (Noot.) Jessup

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Symplocos cochinchinensis var. gittonsii Noot.

orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Symplocos gittinsii (Noot.) Jessup

legitimate