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 semifurcata F.Muell. ex Benth.
, legitimate , scientific
Bentham, G. (1870) , Flora Australiensis 5 :
335
[tax. nov.]
Type:
"W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield."
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 :
507 (map)
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"From Latin, semi- , half, and furcatus , forked, referring to the leaves, some of which are forked and some entire."
Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995) , Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16 :
185, Fig. 96, Map 175
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005) , Australian Plant Census :
-
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Petrophile semifurcata F.Muell. ex Benth. var. semifurcata
legitimate
Rye, B.L., Hislop, M., Shepherd, K.A. & Hollister, C. (29 August 2011) , New south-western Australian members of the genus Petrophile (Proteaceae: Petrophileae), including a hybrid. Nuytsia 21(2) :
61
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophile sp. Zuytdorp (P.Roberts 761 WA Herbarium
[n/a]
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophile conifera var. semifurcata C.A.Gardner
manuscript name
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Petrophila semifurcata Benth.
orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Petrophile conifera var. semifurcata C.A.Gardner
manuscript name
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophile sp. Zuytdorp (P.Roberts 761 WA Herbarium
[n/a]