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 Persoonia acicularis

Proteaceae Juss.

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

Persoonia acicularis F.Muell.

, legitimate

, scientific

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1868), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(48)

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220

[tax. nov.]

Type: "In planitiebus arenosis ad fluvium Murchisoni. Oldf."

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

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67

[secondary reference]

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

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579

[basionym]

basionym of:

Linkia acicularis (F.Muell.) Kuntze

legitimate

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

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65

[secondary reference]

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

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476-477 (map)

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "From Latin, acicularis, narrow, stiff and pointed like a needle, referring to the leaves."

Weston, P.H. (18 September 1994), The Western Australian species of subtribe Persooniinae (Proteaceae: Persooniodeae: Persoonieae).

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138-140, Fig. 28a (map)

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: (here designated): a sheet labelled 'Persoonia acicularis Ferd. von Mueller, Murchison R. W.A. Oldf.' (MEL 103668, photo NSW). Isolectotypes: K (photo NSW), NSW, PERTH (n.v.).

nomenclatural synonym:

Linkia acicularis (F.Muell.) Kuntze

legitimate

Weston, P.H. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Proteaceae subfam. 1. Persoonioideae.

Flora of Australia

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117-118, Fig. 43, Map 105

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Linkia acicularis (F.Muell.) Kuntze

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA