Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Tritonia lancea
Iridaceae Juss.
Tritonia lancea (Thunb.) N.E.Br. , legitimate, scientific
Brown, N.E. (1928), Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 48: 48 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Ixia lancea Thunb. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Ixia lancea Thunb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ixia squalida Aiton legitimate taxonomic synonym: Tritonia squalida (Aiton) Ker Gawl. legitimate
  • APC Comment: Some authors have considered Tritonia squalida to be an illegitimate superfluous name for Tritonia lancea, as Ixia lancea was cited in synonymy. However Ker Gawler indicated doubt in referring I. lancea to synonymy, saying "we have not adopted Thunberg's trivial name of lancea" (Bot. Mag. 16: t. 581 (1802)).
  • APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Vic (formerly naturalised)