Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Persoonia gunnii var. gunnii
Proteaceae Juss.
Persoonia gunnii Hook.f. var. gunnii , legitimate, autonym
Hooker, J.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1847), Florae Tasmaniae Spicilegium: or, Contributions towards a Flora of Van Diemen's Land. London Journal of Botany 6: 283 [autonym]
Orchard, A.E. (31 January 1984), The Tasmanian species of Persoonia Smith (Proteaceae). Brunonia 6(2): 234-236 [secondary reference]
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 482 (plate), 486 (map) [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Persoonia gunnii var. dilatata Meisn. legitimate
  • Etymology: "Named after Ronald Campbell Gunn FLS, FRS, (1808-81), superintendent of convicts in northern Tas, who was encouraged to collect botanical specimens by the botanist R. W. Lawrence. Gunn corresponded with Sir William Hooker and Dr John Lindley and became an authority on Tas plants."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Persoonia gunnii var. dilatata Meisn. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: Tas
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Persoonia gunnii Hook.f. legitimate