Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Adenanthos sericeus subsp. sphalma
Proteaceae Juss.
Adenanthos sericeus subsp. sphalma E.C.Nelson , legitimate, scientific
Nelson, E.C. (27 October 1978), A taxonomic revision of the genus Adenanthos (Proteaceae). Brunonia 1(3): 375, fig. 14 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Thistle Cove, Cape Le Grand National Park, Western Australia, 21.ix.1972, E.C. Nelson ANU16591; holo DBN; iso CANB."
  • Etymology: "Sphalma (mistake)"
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 71 (map) [secondary reference]
common name: woollybush [n/a]
Nelson, E.C. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Adenanthos. Flora of Australia 16: 336, Map 384 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "The subspecific epithet 'sphalma' (noun, neuter) means a mistake."
  • APC Dist.: WA
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Adenanthos sericeus subsp. sphalmus J.Wrigley & Fagg orth. var.
  • APC Dist.: WA