Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Melanostachya ustulata
Restionaceae R.Br.
Melanostachya ustulata (F.Muell. ex Ewart & Sharman) B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson , legitimate, scientific
Briggs, B.G. & Johnson, L.A.S. (29 May 1998), New genera and species of Australian Restionaceae (Poales). Telopea 7(4): 362, fig. 5 h-k. APC [comb. nov.]
  • Type: Type (not cited in protologue [Ewart & Sharman 1916]): Western Australia: [probably Geographe Bay distr.], Mrs Irvine, labelled 'The female plant exhibited at Royal Society Nov. 1915' Female (lecto, here selected, MEL 14812 p.p., female piece left on sheet). Residual syntypes: (MEL 14812 p.p.); Blackwood R., J. Forrest 'Exhibited at Royal Society Nov 1915' Male (MEL 14811, BM). Probably syntypes: Forrest Male (MEL 14813, 14815); Drummond 65 Male (MEL 14814).
basionym: Restio ustulatus F.Muell. ex Ewart & Sharman legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA
Briggs, B.G. & Johnson, L.A.S. in Meney, K.A. & Pate, J.S. (1 September 1999), A guide to a new classification of Australian Restionaceae and allied families. Australian Rushes: 46, 52 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Restio ustulatus F.Muell. ex Ewart & Sharman legitimate
Meney, K.A. & Pate, J.S. (1 September 1999), Morphological and anatomical descriptions of Restionaceae and allied families and their distribution. Australian Rushes: 428-429 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 459 [secondary reference]