Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Blitum virgatum
Chenopodiaceae Vent.
Blitum virgatum L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 4-5 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in Tataria, Hispania."
Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xcvi BHL [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Additions to the lists of the principal timber trees and other select plants readily eligible for Victorian industrial culture: 11 [replaced synonym]
replaced synonym of: Chenopodium blitum F.Muell. legitimate
Wilson, Paul G. (29 August 1983), A taxonomic revision of the tribe Chenopodieae (Chenopodiaceae) in Australia. Nuytsia 4(2): 235 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium foliosum (Moench) Asch. legitimate
  • Text: "Recorded by J. D. Hooker, FI. Tasman. XCVI (1959 [sic; 1859]) as being found in Australia. I have seen no specimens which support this record."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Chenopodium blitum F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Morocarpus foliosus Moench legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chenopodium foliosum (Moench) Asch. legitimate misapplication: Chenopodium capitatum (L.) Ambrosi legitimate by Buchanan, A.M. in Buchanan, A.M. (ed.) (2009), A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania: 21
  • APC Comment: A European taxon, recorded by J.D.Hooker in the introductory essay to Fl. Tasman. 2(2): xcvi (1859), and by M.F.de Salas and M.L.Baker, Census Vasc. Pl. Tasmania 32 (2016) (as Chenopodium foliosum (Moench) Asch.), but not known to occur in Australia.