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 Melichrus

Ericaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Ericales(ordo)
Ericaceae(fam.)
Melichrus(gen.)

Melichrus R.Br.

, legitimate

, scientific

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

:

539

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4

:

161

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

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105

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

Drude, C.G.O. in Engler, H.G.A. & Prantl, K.A.E. (ed.) (December 1889), Epacridaceae.

Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien

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78

[basionym]

basionym of:

Styphelia sect. Melichrus (R.Br.) Drude

legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

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242

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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295

[secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1

:

63, 198

[secondary reference]

Etymology: From the Greek melichroos (honey-coloured)

Paterson, B.R. (1958), Revision of the genus Melichrus R.Br. (Epacridaceae).

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

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303-313

[secondary reference]

Type: Melichrus procumbens (Cav.) Druce

taxonomic synonym:

Vintenatia Cav.

orth. var.

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

:

338

[secondary reference]

Sleumer, H.O. (1964), Florae Malesianae Precursores XXXVII. Materials towards the knowledge of the Epacridaceae mainly in Asia, Malaysia and the Pacific.

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145

[secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

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296-298

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

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113

[secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Epacridaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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251-252

[secondary reference]

Powell, J.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Epacridaceae p.p.

Flora of New South Wales

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415

[secondary reference]

Albrecht, D.E. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Epacridaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

477

[secondary reference]

Stevens, P.F. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Ericaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

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179

[secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

:

535

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Styphelia sect. Melichrus (R.Br.) Drude

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gen. nov. (aff. Melichrus)

[n/a]

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Vintenatia Cav.

orth. var.

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Ventenatia Cav.

nom. rej.

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Styphelia sect. Ventenatia (Cav.) Kuntze

nom. illeg.

APC Dist.: WA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic