Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

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Showing Banksia prionophylla

Proteaceae Juss.

, legitimate

, scientific

475

[nom. nov.]

replaced synonym:

legitimate

APC Comment: Banksia prionophylla F.Muell. is here considered to be nom. nud., nom. inval., and the type material is considered by A.S.George (Nuytsia 3: 396, 1991; Fl. Australia 17B: 231, 1999) to represent B. spinulosa var. cunninghamii (Sieber ex Rchb.) A.S.George. The name was published by Mueller (First Gen. Rep. Veg. Colony 17, 1853) without a description. Some authors (e.g. A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Index 366, 1991; A.S.George, Fl. Australia 17B: 231, 1999) have considered the name to have been validated by Meisner (Linnaea 26: 353, 1853). However, Meisner provides no indication that he accepts Mueller’s new taxon, commenting “absque flore haude certe dignoscenda” [without flowers by no means identifiable] and that the sterile material possibly represents B. littoralis R.Br. See also K.R.Thiele & P.G.Wilson, Austral. Syst. Botany Newsl., 135: 4 (2008).
APC Dist.: WA

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

[n/a]

APC Comment: Banksia prionophylla F.Muell. is here considered to be nom. nud., nom. inval., and the type material is considered by A.S.George (Nuytsia 3: 396, 1991; Fl. Australia 17B: 231, 1999) to represent B. spinulosa var. cunninghamii (Sieber ex Rchb.) A.S.George. The name was published by Mueller (First Gen. Rep. Veg. Colony 17, 1853) without a description. Some authors (e.g. A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Index 366, 1991; A.S.George, Fl. Australia 17B: 231, 1999) have considered the name to have been validated by Meisner (Linnaea 26: 353, 1853). However, Meisner provides no indication that he accepts Mueller’s new taxon, commenting “absque flore haude certe dignoscenda” [without flowers by no means identifiable] and that the sterile material possibly represents B. littoralis R.Br. See also K.R.Thiele & P.G.Wilson, Austral. Syst. Botany Newsl., 135: 4 (2008).
APC Dist.: WA