Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Conostylis prolifera
Haemodoraceae R.Br.
Conostylis prolifera Benth. , legitimate, scientific
Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 436 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "W. Austtralia. Swan river, Drummond; Murchison river, Oldfield."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 116 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1961), The Genus Conostylis R.Br. II. Taxonomy. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 85(3): 352 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Conostylis stylidioides F.Muell. legitimate
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 52 [secondary reference]
Hopper, S.D., Purdie, R.W., George, A.S. & Patrick, S.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Conostylis. Flora of Australia 45: 77-79, Fig. 35, Map 75 APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Conostylis racemosa Benth. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Conostylis stylidioides F.Muell. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1961), The Genus Conostylis R.Br. II. Taxonomy. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 85(3): 352-353, Figs 21-26, 79
  • APC Comment: Natural hybrids are known between C. candicans and C. prolifer, one of these being named C. candicans var. X leptophylla. Conostylis aculeata and C. robusta hybridise with C. prolifera.
  • APC Dist.: WA