Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Brachychiton x roseus
Malvaceae Juss.
Brachychiton x roseus Guymer , legitimate, named hybrid
Guymer, G.P. (1989), A taxonomic revision of Brachychiton (Sterculiaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 1(3): 308 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, 6 Nov. 1984, R. Whitten (holotypus BRI; isotypus BRI)."
  • Comment: Hybrid between Brachychiton acerifolius F.Muell. & B. populneus (Schott & Endl.) R.Br. subsp. populneus.
  • Comment: G.P.Guymer, Austral. Syst. Bot. 1: 308 (1989) list the name "Brachychiton ×roseus nothosubsp. roseus", but this autonym is not established as no subspecific taxa had been published within "Brachychiton ×roseus" at the time.
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Brachychiton populneo-acerifolium F.Muell. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Brachychiton populneo-acerifolius F.Muell. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Clompanus acerifolia (G.Don) Kuntze x Brachychiton diversifolius R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Brachychiton populneo x acerifolius Kuntze orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Brachychiton populnea-acerifolium A.D.Chapm. orth. var.
  • APC Comment: A hybrid between Brachychiton acerifolius and B. populneus subsp. populneus known only from cultivation (see G.P.Guymer, Austral. Syst. Bot. 1(3): 308-309 (1988)).