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.
Type:"Mr. J.L. Boorman and I found it a few miles from Grafton on the Glen Innes Road, and also on the Coramba Road ... I have also seen it in the Clarence River district. I received it from the Macleay River in 1893 from Mr. Forester MacDonald ..."
Etymology:"I name this graceful and useful species in honour of Sir John See, K.C.M.G., late Premier and Chief Secretary of New South Wales, long my respected official superior, in whose electorate (Grafton) I first found it, and in which it is not rare. This tree will also perpetuate the memory of the late Lady See, who always evinced a keen interest in the vegetation of the State in which she was born."
Lectotype:"Mr J.L. Boorman and I found it a few miles from Grafton on the Glen Innes road, and also on the Coramba road (July, 1903). The Grafton specimens, on the Glen Innes road, form the type."
APC Comment:Intergrades are reported between E. interstans and E. seeana (Johnson & Hill, 1990). S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Pickard, Pl. New South Wales 163 (1981) listed a subsp. seeana, but described no other subspecies, nor has one been described since.