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.

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Showing Grevillea insignis

Proteaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Proteanae(superordo)
Proteales(ordo)
Proteaceae(fam.)
Grevillea(gen.)
insignis(sp.)

Grevillea insignis Kippist ex Meisn.

, legitimate

, scientific

Meisner, C.D.F. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), New Proteaceae of Australia.

Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany

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76

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Drummond, coll. v. Suppl. n. 12."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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69

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

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61

[secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family

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244 (plate), 264 (map)

[secondary reference]

common name:

wax grevillea

[n/a]

Etymology: "From Latin, insignis, outstanding; refers to the large, colourful blooms>"

McGillivray, D.J & Makinson, R.O. (1993), Grevillea, Proteaceae: a taxonomic revision

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230-231

[secondary reference]

Olde, P.M. & Marriott, N.R. (1995), The Grevillea Book 2

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frontispiece (photo), 212

[secondary reference]

common name:

Wax Grevillea

[n/a]

Etymology: "The specific epithet refers to the distinguished appearance of the plant and is derived from the Latin insignis (remarkable, extraordinary)."

Makinson, R.O. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2000), Grevillea.

Flora of Australia

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346-347

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA

Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Byng, J.W. (9 February 2018), GLOVAP Nomenclature Part 1.

The Global Flora: a practical flora to vascular plant species of the world

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84

[basionym]

basionym of:

Hakea insignis (Kippist ex Meisn.) Christenh. & Byng

legitimate