Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Euphrasia ruptura
Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Euphrasia ruptura W.R.Barker , legitimate, scientific
Barker, W.R. (17 December 1997), Taxonomic studies in Euphrasia (Scrophulariaceae). VIII. E. ruptura, a name for a species apparently extinct in northeastern New South Wales. Telopea 7(3): 227 [primary reference]
  • Type: New South Wales: North-western Slopes: Tamworth, [H.M.R. Rupp], MEL 41404, Sep 1904. (Holotypus: MEL; iconotypus: Barker 1982; fig. 57).
taxonomic synonym: Euphrasia sp. Tamworth (Rupp sn. -/9/1904) [n/a]
  • Etymology: "The species epithet is a noun in apposition. It has two meanings. On the one hand it commemorates in a play on words H.M.R. Rupp, an important collector of plants in general in New South Wales and Victoria, later specialising in Orchidaceae...; the type specimen comes from the period when he first began to collect plants seriously, in Tamworth in 1903–4. On the other hand the epithet is a Latin substantive, meaning literally the result of the breaking up, referring both to the three closely related species recognised in revisional study since the 1980s, and to the lineal stepped variation and disjunct geography of this group of three species."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Euphrasia sp. 'Tamworth' [n/a] nomenclatural synonym: Euphrasia sp. Tamworth (Rupp sn. -/9/1904) [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Euphrasia sp. 'Tamworth' [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Euphrasia sp. 1 (Tamworth) [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Euphrasia sp. 1 (Tamworth; Rupp s.n., -/09/1904) [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Euphrasia sp. Tamworth (Rupp sn. -/9/1904) [n/a]
  • APC Dist.: NSW (presumed extinct)