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 canescens

Proteaceae Juss.

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

Petrophile canescens A.Cunn. ex R.Br.

, legitimate

, scientific

Brown, R. (1830), Proteaceas Novas.

Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae

:

6

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Ora orient., Moreton Bay, 1827, Allan Cunningham."

Domin, K. (1921), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

578

[basionym]

basionym of:

Petrophile pulchella var. canescens (A.Cunn. ex R.Br.) Domin

legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

182

[secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1984), Native Plants of Queensland 2

:

220

[secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Proteaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

6

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Petrophile sessilis Sieber ex Schult.

legitimate

common name:

Conesticks

[n/a]

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

:

501 (map)

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "From Latin, canescens, greyish or becoming grey, referring to the hairy leaves, which appear greyish, particularly when young."

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Petrophile.

Flora of New South Wales

:

23

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Australia

:

155, Fig. 82, Map 133

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Petrophile pulchella var. canescens (A.Cunn. ex R.Br.) Domin

legitimate

APC Comment: Intergrades with P. canescens and P. pulchella where the species are found together.
APC Dist.: Qld, NSW

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Petrophile.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

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23-24

[secondary reference]

Jessup, L.W. (22 April 2002), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 2 Changes to names or status of taxa

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Petrophila canescens R.Br.

orth. var.

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Petrophila canescens R.Br.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Petrophila pulchella var. canescens Domin

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Petrophile pulchella var. canescens (A.Cunn. ex R.Br.) Domin

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW