Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Billardiera coriacea

Pittosporaceae R.Br.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Apiales(ordo)
Pittosporaceae(fam.)
Billardiera(gen.)
coriacea(sp.)

Billardiera coriacea Benth.

, legitimate

, scientific

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

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124

[tax. nov.]

Type: Not cited.

taxonomic synonym:

Pronaya latifolia Turcz.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

7

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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12

BHL

[secondary reference]

Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse.

Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie

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212

BHL

[secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. (7 February 1978), New taxa and new combinations in Australian Pittosporaceae.

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188, Fig. 1 I

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

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82

[secondary reference]

Cayzer, L.W., Crisp, M.D. & Telford, I.R.H. (9 March 2004), Cladistic analysis and revision of Billardiera (Pittosporaceae).

Australian Systematic Botany

:

108-109, Fig. 22 (map)

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: (here designated): Western Australia, Point Henry, Oldfield (MEL 64936)

taxonomic synonym:

Pronaya latifolia Turcz.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pronaya latifolia Turcz.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Billardiera latifolia (Turcz.) Druce

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

APC Comment: Bentham's Billardiera coriacea is based on Pronaya latifolia Turcz., but the name was preoccupied by Billardiera latifolia Putt. from 1839. Putterlick's taxon is a distinct species. The lectotypification of Billardiera coriacea Benth. by L.W.Cayzer et al., Austral. Syst. Bot. 17: 108 (2004) using material collected by Oldfield would thus seem to be erroneous, as Turczaninow cited a Drummond specimen as the type of his name.
APC Dist.: WA

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