Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Androcalva lachna
Malvaceae Juss.
Androcalva lachna 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): 312-313, Figs 13C (map), 15 APC [tax. nov.]
  • Type: WESTERN AUSTRALIA: N of Carnarvon [exact locality withheld for conservation reasons], A.M. Ashby 2933, 16 Aug. 1969. Holotype: PERTH 02624893!; isotypes: AD!, BRI!, DNA!, HO, K!, MEL!, NSW!, NY!
misapplication: Commersonia gaudichaudii J.Gay 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: Commersonia gaudichaudii J.Gay 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: 629
  • APC Dist.: WA
  • Etymology: "From the Greek lachno = woolly in reference to the densely hairy leaves present in this species."
Biggs, L.J. & Parker, C.M. (21 November 2013), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2012. Nuytsia 23: 503 [secondary reference]