Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Androcalva aphrix
Malvaceae Juss.
Androcalva aphrix C.F.Wilkins , legitimate, scientific
Wilkins, C.F. & Whitlock, B.A. (18 November 2011), A new Australian genus, Androcalva, separated from Commersonia (Malvaceae s.l. or Byttneriaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 24(5): 292-293, Figs 4B (map), 5 APC [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Western Australia: Great Eastern Highway, Yellowdine Nature Reserve, C.F. Wilkins 1718 and J.A. Wege, 13 Sep. 2003. Holotype: PERTH 07906552!; isotypes: CANB!, MEL!.
misapplication: Rulingia cuneata Turcz. legitimate by Blackall, W.E. & Grieve, B.J. (1974), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the temperate regions of Western Australia 1, 2, 3: 356 misapplication: Rulingia cuneata Turcz. legitimate by Grieve, B.J. (1998), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia Edn. 2, 2: 628
  • APC Dist.: WA
  • Etymology: "From the Greek a = without, and phrix = ripple, in reference to the mature leaf margin that is flat rather than strongly undulate or crisped as seen in its closest relative A. cuneata."
Biggs, L.J. & Parker, C.M. (21 November 2013), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2012. Nuytsia 23: 503 [secondary reference]