Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Ptilotus unguiculatus
Amaranthaceae Juss.
Ptilotus unguiculatus T.Hammer , legitimate, scientific
Hammer, T.A. (2018), The Ptilotus murrayi species group: synonymisation of P. petiolatus under P. murrayi and description of the new Western Australian species P. unguiculatus (Amaranthaceae). Swainsona 31: 96-98, Figs 2, 3B (map) [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Edaggee Station, Western Australia [precise locality withheld for conservation reasons], 3 July 1970, T.E.H.Aplin 3208 (holo: PERTH 04073819!, Fig. 2; iso: M 0241497 image!)."
nomenclatural synonym: Ptilotus sp. Edaggee Station (T.E.H.Aplin 3208) WA Herbarium [n/a]
  • Etymology: "The specific epithet is from the Latin unguiculatus (having claws), referring to the conspicuously clawed sepals of the new species."
Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (28 March 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2018. Nuytsia 30: 13 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Ptilotus sp. Edaggee Station (T.E.H.Aplin 3208) WA Herbarium [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Ptilotus petiolatus subsp. limbatus Benl manuscript name taxonomic synonym: Ptilotus sp. Edaggee Station (T.E.H.Aplin 3208) WA Herbarium [n/a]
  • APC Dist.: WA