Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Proteaceae Juss.
Petrophile serruriae R.Br. , legitimate , scientific
Brown, R. (1830) , Proteaceas Novas. Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae
6
[tax. nov.]
Type:
"Ora merid.-occid., Swan River, 1827. D. Fraser. occid.-merid. King George's Sound, 1829. D. Baxter."
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
353
[secondary reference]
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989) , Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family
507 (map), 517 (plate)
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophile glanduligera Lindl. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophile axillaris Meisn. legitimate
Etymology:
"From the genus Serruria , a South African proteaceous genus, which it resembles in both flower and leaf form."
Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995) , Appendix: Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16
477-478
[secondary reference]
Lectotype:
south-west coast of New Holland [King George Sound, W.A.], 1828-29 [1829], W. Baxter s.n.; lecto (here chosen: BM; isolecto: BM.
Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995) , Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16
188, 190
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophile glanduligera Lindl. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophile axillaris Meisn. legitimate
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2
845
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005) , Australian Plant Census
-
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Petrophila serruriae R.Br. orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophila glanduligera Lindl. orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophile glanduligera Lindl. legitimate
APC Comment:
P. axillaris, treated by Foreman, Flora of Australia 16: 188 (1995) as a synonym of P. serruriae R.Br., is now accepted as a distinct species [fide FloraBase]
APC Dist.:
WA
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)
55-56, Figs 1I, 2F (map)
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Petrophile glanduligera Lindl. 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
150, 152
[secondary reference]
