Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Petrophile megalostegia
Proteaceae Juss.
Petrophile megalostegia F.Muell. , legitimate, scientific
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1876), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 10(83): 61 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "In Australia occidentali extratropica; J. Drummond."
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]
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 505 (map) [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "From Greek, megalo-, large, and stegos, a shlelter, referring to the large cone scales."
Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16: 164-165, Map 151 [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Petrophila megalostegia F.Muell. orth. var.
  • APC Dist.: WA