Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

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Showing Pandanus hemsleyanus

Pandanaceae R.Br.

, legitimate

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[tax. nov.]

235

[secondary reference]

Text: "This name was published by Martelli based on the description of a unnamed Pandanus species from Lord Howe Island, published by W.B.Hemsley in The flora of Lord Howe Island, Ann. Bot. 19: 256 (1896). Hemsley himself took the description from an earlier publication (J.B.Wilson, Report on the Present State and Future Prospects of Lord Howe Island; Geology by H.Wilkinson; Botany by J.Duff (1882)). P.S.Green, in Fl. Australia 49: 415 (1994), wrote that P. hemsleyanus was probably referable to P. tectorius, a species that had previously been known on the island from a single plant growing on the beach, which had died in 1975. However, the description quoted by Hemsley compared the plant with P. forsteriana, noting that it was smaller in many of its feature than P. foresteriana. No later authors have recognised a second species of Pandanus growing in the forests on Lord Howe Island. It seems likely that P. hemsleyanus is a small variant of P. forsteriana, with characteristics which have been included in the variation of the latter species as more material has been examined."

- APC

[secondary reference]

APC Comment: A name of uncertain application. Possibly referable to Pandanus forsteriana C.Moore & F.Muell. (see A.J.G.Wilson in A.J.G.Wilson (ed.), Fl. Australia 39: 235 (2011)).