Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Persoonia pungens
Proteaceae Juss.
Persoonia pungens W.Fitzg. , legitimate, scientific
Fitzgerald, W.V. (January 1912), New West Australian plants. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 50: 23 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Kellerberrin; F.H. Vachel, Prope Kellerberrin; leg. W.V.F."
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 65 [secondary reference]
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 493 (map) [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "From Latin, pungens, terminating in a hard, sharp point; referring to the leaves."
Weston, P.H. (18 September 1994), The Western Australian species of subtribe Persooniinae (Proteaceae: Persooniodeae: Persoonieae). Telopea 6(1): 107-108, Fig. 18b (map) [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: (here designated): on a sheet labelled 'Kellerberrin Nov 1907 spreading rigidly branched 18 in high coll. W V F.'; annotated by Fitzgerald (NSW 154139). Isolectotypes: BM, NSW (2 sheets), PERTH.
Weston, P.H. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Proteaceae subfam. 1. Persoonioideae. Flora of Australia 16: 106, Fig. 41, Map 86 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA