Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Proteaceae Juss.
Petrophile linearis R.Br.
, legitimate , scientific
Brown, R. (1830) , Proteaceas Novas. Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae :
6
[tax. nov.]
Type:
"Ora meridionali-occidentalis, ad rip. Swan River, 1826. D. Carolus Fraser."
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophile falcata A.Cunn. ex Meisn.
nom. inval., pro syn.
Meisner, C.D.F. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1856) , Proteaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 14(1) :
267
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Protea falcata Meisn.
nom. inval., pro syn.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants :
65
[secondary reference]
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 1 :
351, Fig. 128
[secondary reference]
common name:
Pixie Mops
[n/a]
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989) , Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family :
484 (plate), 504 (map)
[secondary reference]
common name:
pixie mops
[n/a]
Etymology:
"From Latin, linearis , linear, referring to the leaves."
Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995) , Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16 :
185, 187, Figs 53, 96, Map 176
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophile linearis var. microcephala Domin
legitimate
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2 :
843
[secondary reference]
common name:
Pixie Mops
[n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Petrophila linearis R.Br.
orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Petrophile linearis R.Br. var. linearis
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Protea falcata Meisn.
nom. inval., pro syn.
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophile falcata A.Cunn. ex Meisn.
nom. inval., pro syn.
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophila linearis var. microcephala Domin
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophile linearis var. microcephala Domin
legitimate
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 :
152-153, photos 4-6
[secondary reference]
common name:
Pixie Mops
[n/a]