Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Polygalaceae Hoffmanns. & Link
Comesperma Labill. , legitimate , scientific
Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1806) , Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 2(16)
21, t. 159
[tax. nov.]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862) , Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1
185
[secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (30 May 1863) , Flora Australiensis 1
141-149
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889) , Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants
15
[secondary reference]
Chodat, R.H. in Engler, H.G.A. & Prantl, K.A.E. (ed.) (July 1896) , Polygalaceae. Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien III, 4(138-139)
338
[basionym]
basionym of:
Bredemeyera sect. Comesperma (Chodat nom. illeg.
Diels, F.L.E. & Pritzel, E.G. (6 December 1904) , Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae occidentalis. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pflanzen Westaustraliens, ihrer Verbreitung und ihrer Lebensverhaltnisse. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 35(2-3)
331-332
[secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906) , The Plants of New South Wales
42
[secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913) , Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants
44
[secondary reference]
Sulman, F. (1914) , A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II
26-27
[secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1924) , Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2
347
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
From Greek kome, hair of the head; sperma, seed: alluding to the tuft of hairs.
Black, J.M. (January 1948) , Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2
504
[secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. (1956) , The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1
58
[secondary reference]
common name:
Milkwort [n/a]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains
146
[secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
244
[secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975) , Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1
61-62
[secondary reference]
common name:
Milkwort [n/a]
Thompson, J. (1978) , Polygalaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 112
1-13
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Comaspermum Pers. orth. var.
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
175
[secondary reference]
Pedley, L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Polygalaceae. Flora of Central Australia
197
[secondary reference]
Pedley, L. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984) , Polygalaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1
487-490
[secondary reference]
Pedley, L. (14 July 1984) , A revision of Comesperma (Polygalaceae) in Queensland. Austrobaileya 2(1)
7-14
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987) , Polygalaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1
469
[secondary reference]
Murray, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992) , Polygalaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3
3
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Polygalaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region
638
[secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999) , Polygalaceae. Flora of Victoria 4
134
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2
798
[secondary reference]
Eriksen, B. & Persson, C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2007) , Polygalaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 9
358, Fig. 129C
[secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3
205
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011) , Australian Plant Census
-
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Comaspermum Pers. orth. var.
orthographic variant:
Comosperma Poir. orth. var.
orthographic variant:
Comespermea Endl. orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Bredemeyera sect. Comesperma (Chodat nom. illeg.
pro parte taxonomic synonym:
Bredemeyera Willd. legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas
