Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Conospermum burgessiorum
Proteaceae Juss.
Conospermum burgessiorum L.A.S.Johnson & McGill. , legitimate, scientific
Johnson, L.A.S. & McGillivray, D.J. (28 July 1975), Conospermum Sm. (Proteaceae) in Eastern Australia. Telopea 1(1): 58, t. VI. [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "NEW SOUTH WALES: Northern Tablelands: Gibraltar Range, 39.5 miles (63 km) by road ENE., of Glen Innes on the Gwydir Highway, D.J. McGillivray 2403 and L.A.S. Johnson, 20.9.1966 (located in the National Herbarium of New South Wales). ISOTYPES: yet to be distributed. See plate VI."
  • Comment: "The species has been described as "Unnamed species" by Beadle, Stud. Fl. NE. New South Wales 2: 233 (1973)."
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 178 [secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Proteaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 11 [secondary reference]
Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 43 [secondary reference]
Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 45 [secondary reference]
Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family: 135-136 (map) [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Named after the Rev Colin Burgess and his son Peter Burgess, who recognised this species as distinct. After retiring from the clergy, Colin worked as a botanist at the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, for a number of years. Peter is a forester with the NSW Forestry Commission."
Mackay, D. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Conospermum. Flora of New South Wales 2: 25 [secondary reference]
Bennett, E.M. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Conospermum. Flora of Australia 16: 255, Map 270 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA