Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Sersalisia sericea
Sapotaceae Juss.
Sersalisia sericea (Aiton) R.Br. , legitimate, scientific
Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 530 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Sideroxylon sericeum Aiton legitimate
Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 279 BHL [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Sideroxylon sericeum Aiton legitimate
Bentham, G. & Hooker, J.D. (May 1876), Genera Plantarum 2(2): 654 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Lucuma sericea (Aiton) Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate
Domin, K. (September 1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 1062 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Sideroxylon sericeum Aiton legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Lucuma sericea (Aiton) Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate
Baehni, C. (1942), Memoires sur les Sapotacees, II: Le Genre Pouteria. Candollea 9: 375 [secondary reference]
Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 276 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Pouteria sericea (Aiton) Baehni legitimate
Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Sapotaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 270 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Pouteria sericea (Aiton) Baehni legitimate
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 182 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Pouteria sericea (Aiton) Baehni legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Pouteria sericea (Aiton) Baehni legitimate
Swenson, U., Bartish, I.V. & Munzinger, J. (2007), Phylogeny, diagnostic characters and generic limitation of Australasian Chrysophylloideae (Sapotaceae, Ericales): evidence from ITS sequence data and morphology. Cladistics 23: 222 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Sideroxylon sericeum Aiton legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Lucuma sericea (Aiton) Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Pouteria sericea (Aiton) Baehni legitimate taxonomic synonym: Planchonella sericea Dubard legitimate
  • APC Comment: Treated as Pouteria sericea in NT.
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld
Jessup, L.W. (23 August 2019), A taxonomic revision of Sapotaceae for mainland Australia. Austrobaileya 10(3): 363-364, Map 22 [secondary reference]
  • 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)."
nomenclatural synonym: Sideroxylon sericeum Aiton legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Lucuma sericea (Aiton) Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Pouteria sericea (Aiton) Baehni legitimate taxonomic synonym: Planchonella sericea Dubard legitimate
  • 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.
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Sideroxylon sericeum Aiton legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Lucuma sericea (Aiton) Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Pouteria sericea (Aiton) Baehni legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lucuma obpyriformis F.M.Bailey legitimate taxonomic synonym: Planchonella sericea Dubard legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sersalisia obpyriformis (F.M.Bailey) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pouteria obpyriformis (F.M.Bailey) Baehni legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sersalisia obpyriformis (F.M.Bailey) Jessup isonym
  • APC Comment: Sersalisia obpyriformis is treated as a distinct taxon in Qld.
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld