Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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.
Text:"It is totally unaccountable to me how this plant came by the name of citrina, there being nothing about it approaching to a lemon-colour, except the pollen, which would hardly have occasioned such a denomination. Sometimes I have imagined it might allude to a resemblance in the appearance or smell of the leaves to a lemon tree, which however does not exist ; and if it did, the name ought to have been citrea. I would never change a name that has been generally in use, whether published or not ; but this is too preposterous to be retained."