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 Caesalpinia gilliesii

Fabaceae Lindl.

Caesalpinia gilliesii (Hook.) D.Dietr.

, legitimate

, scientific

Dietrich, D.N.F. (1840), Synopsis Plantarum 2

:

1495

BHL

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Poinciana gilliesii Hook.

legitimate

Comment: Reference to basionym indirect, via Dietrich's attribution of this name to "Hook. bot. misc. t. 34" [i.e. W.J.Hooker, Bot. Misc. 1: 129, t. 34 (1830)], where Hooker provides the designation "Caesalpinia gilliesii Wallich. MSS." only in synonymy under Poinciana gilliesii Hook.

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales

:

377

[secondary reference]

common name:

Bird-of-paradise Flower

[n/a]

common name:

Red Bird-of-paradise

[n/a]

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

:

95

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Poinciana gilliesii Hook.

legitimate

Pedley, L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Caesalpiniaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

395

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Poinciana gilliesii Hook.

legitimate

Wiecek, B. & McCune, S. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Caesalpinia.

Flora of New South Wales

:

314

[secondary reference]

common name:

Bird-of-paradise Flower

[n/a]

George, A.S. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Caesalpinia.

Flora of Australia

:

66-67, Map 65

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Poinciana gilliesii Hook.

legitimate

Wiecek, B. & McCune, S. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Caesalpinia.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

367

[secondary reference]

common name:

Bird-of-paradise Flower

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

isonym:

Caesalpinia gilliesii (Hook.) Benth.

isonym

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Gagnon, E., Bruneau, A., Hughes, C.E., de Queiroz, L.P. & Lewis, G.P. (2016), A new generic system for the pantropical Caesalpinia group (Leguminosae).

:

122

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Erythrostemon gilliesii (Hook.) Klotzsch

legitimate

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2017), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2016 census to 2017 census.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2017

:

20

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Erythrostemon gilliesii (Hook.) Klotzsch

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Erythrostemon gilliesii (Hook.) Klotzsch

legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (28 March 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2018.

:

8

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Erythrostemon gilliesii (Hook.) Klotzsch

legitimate