Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Xyris oligantha
Xyridaceae C.Agardh
Xyris oligantha Steud. , legitimate, scientific
Steudel, E.G. von (1855), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 2(10): 288 [tax. nov.]
Kern, J.H. (March 1954), Addenda, corrigenda et emendanda: Xyris. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(5): 599 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Xyridaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1025 [secondary reference]
Doust, A.N. & Conn, B.J. (26 October 1994), Xyris L. section Xyris (Xyridaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 7(5): 465-466, figs 5a-k, 6 (map) APC [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: (Here chosen): (Queensland: Cook) 'Endeavour River', 'JB & DS' (Banks & Solander s.n.), anno '1770' (BM) (all above annotations in Brown's hand). The complete annotation on this herbarium sheet is as follows: 'X. pauciflora Vahl enum 2 p 207. X. tetragona R.Br. Endeavour River, mixed with X. pusilla R.Br. 1770 J.B. & D.S.' (in Brown's hand).
misapplication: Xyris pauciflora Willd. legitimate by Vahl, M.(H.) (1805), Enumeratio Plantarum 2: 207 misapplication: Xyris pauciflora Willd. legitimate by Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 256
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld