Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Neptunia xanthonema
Leguminosae Juss.
Neptunia xanthonema A.R.Bean , legitimate, scientific
Bean, A.R. (16 November 2022), A revision of Neptunia Lour. (Leguminosae: subfamily Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoid clade) in Australia and Malesia. Austrobaileya 12: 95-96, Fig. 2F, 2G, 10, Map 12 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Australia. Northern Territory. Anthony Lagoon, 19 February 1998, C.R. Michell 1311 & R. Carrow (holo: BRI [AQ1024483 comprising 1 sheet]; iso: DNA D0134434)."
  • Etymology: "The epithet is derived from the Greek xanthos (yellow) and -nema (thread) and refers to the conspicuous yellow staminodes present on some inflorescences."
Bean, A.R. (16 November 2022), A revision of Neptunia Lour. (Leguminosae: subfamily Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoid clade) in Australia and Malesia. Austrobaileya 12: 95 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Neptunia dimorphantha var. clementii Domin legitimate pro parte misapplication: Neptunia dimorphantha Domin legitimate by Whibley, D.J.E. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Mimosaceae (Neptunia, Prosopis). Flora of Central Australia: 114, Fig. 154A pro parte misapplication: Neptunia dimorphantha Domin legitimate by Whibley, D.J.E. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Mimosoideae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, II: 137 pro parte misapplication: Neptunia dimorphantha Domin legitimate by Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Neptunia. Flora of New South Wales 2: 380 pro parte misapplication: Neptunia dimorphantha Domin legitimate by Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Mimosaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 341, Fig. 101A pro parte misapplication: Neptunia dimorphantha Domin legitimate by Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 137 misapplication: Neptunia monosperma F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate by Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 429
Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (21 March 2023), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2022. Nuytsia 34: 4 [secondary reference]