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 Orites milliganii

Proteaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Proteanae(superordo)
Proteales(ordo)
Proteaceae(fam.)
Orites(gen.)
milliganii(sp.)

Orites milliganii Meisn.

, legitimate

, scientific

Meisner, C.D.F. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1856), Proteaceae.

Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis

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424

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: "In monte Sorrel, prope Macquarie Harbour Tasmanniae occidentalis (Milligan, n. 739!)"

Comment: Meisner attributes this name to "Meisn. in Hook. Journ. 1852, p. 209" [i.e. C.D.F.Meisner, Hooker's J. Bot. & Kew Gard. Misc. 4: 209 (1852)], where it is given without a description as "Orites milligani".

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875.

Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania

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81

[secondary reference]

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

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68

[secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

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168

BHL

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

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604

[secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family

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473 (fig., map)

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Named in honour of Dr Joseph Milligan (1807-83), Scottish-born surgeon who collected plants in Tas between 1830 and 1860."

George, A.S. & Hyland, B.P.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Orites.

Flora of Australia

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349, 351, Map 401

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Orites milligani Meisn.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Orites milligani Meisn.

nom. inval., nom. nud.

APC Dist.: Tas

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census.

A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island

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66

[secondary reference]