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 Petrophile biloba

Proteaceae Juss.

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

Petrophile biloba R.Br.

, legitimate

, scientific

Brown, R. (1830), Proteaceas Novas.

Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae

:

7

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Ora merid.-occid., Swan River, 1827. C. Fraser."

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

:

65

[secondary reference]

McGillivray, D.J. (12 June 1973), Michel Gandoger's names of Australian plants.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium

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350

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Petrophila argyrotricha Gand.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Petrophile argyrotricha Gand.

legitimate

doubtful taxonomic synonym:

Petrophila chrysotricha Gand.

orth. var.

doubtful taxonomic synonym:

Petrophile chrysotricha Gand.

legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

65

[secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Proteaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

:

351, Fig. 127

[secondary reference]

common name:

Granite Petrophile

[n/a]

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

:

483 (plate), 500 (map)

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Petrophile chrysotricha Gand.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Petrophile argyrotricha Gand.

legitimate

common name:

granite petrophile

[n/a]

Etymology: "From Latin, bi-, two, and lobus, a lobe, referring to the ultimate leaf segments, which are usually divided into 2 segments."

Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Petrophile.

Flora of Australia

:

190-191, Figs 32, 97, Map 182

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Petrophile chrysotricha Gand.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Petrophile argyrotricha Gand.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2

:

152

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Petrophila biloba R.Br.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Petrophila chrysotricha Gand.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Petrophile chrysotricha Gand.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Petrophila argyrotricha Gand.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Petrophile argyrotricha Gand.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA