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.
Type:"[Australia. COOK DISTRICT:] Bay of Inlets and Endeavour River, in 1770, J. Banks & D. Solander s.n. (syn: BM); Hort. Kew, in 1778, [collector unknown, probably W. Aiton] (syn: BM; isosyn: MEL)."
Text:"Hermann-Erlee & van Royen (1957), selected a Robert Brown specimen as a 'lectotype' (neotype) overlooking the sheet in BM that has several specimens mounted on it including those collected by Banks and Solander and a specimen from Hort. Kew probably collected by Aiton. The Banks specimen from New South Wales is clearly mentioned by Aiton in contrast to Hermann-Erlee & van Royen’s (1957: 461) claim to the contrary, viz. 'Sideroxylon sericeum 3. S. inerme, foliis ovatis subtus tomentososericeis. Silky Iron-wood. Nat. of New South Wales. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. [Baronet] Introd. 1772. Fl. Stove Shrubby'."
Text:"When Dubard published the name Planchonella sericea he did not cite the basionym Sideroxylon sericeum but a nomenclatural synonym (Sersalisia sericea), so in effect described a new species with a new type. His species was included as a synonym by Baehni (1942) under Pouteria sericea (Ait.) Baehni.