Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Ventenat, E.P. (1805), Jardin de la Malmaison 2(17): 102, t. 102 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Phebalium squamulosum Vent.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (18 September 1854), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the colony of Victoria. Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria 1: 10 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 129 [basionym]

basionym of: Eriostemon sect. Phebalium (Vent.) F.Muell. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 119 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eriostemon Sm. legitimate

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 336 [secondary reference]

Baillon, H.E. (1881), Dictionnaire de Botanique 2: 277 [basionym]

basionym of: Crowea sect. Phebalium (Vent.) Baill. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 10 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eriostemon Sm. legitimate

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): 322-323 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 293 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 76 [secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 86-87 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 342 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: Said to have adapted by Ventenat from phibaleos, the Greek name for an early fig-tree, and formerly supposed to indicate a myrtle.

Ewart, A.J. (1925), Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters: 110 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 498 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 103 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 318 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 206 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 240 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. (10 December 1970), A taxonomic revision of the genera Crowea, Eriostemon and Phebalium (Rutaceae). Nuytsia 1(1): 60-61 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Crowea sect. Phebalium (Vent.) Baill. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Eriostemon Sm. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 118-119 misapplication: Eriostemon Sm. legitimate by Poiret, J.L.M. in Cuvier, F. (ed.) (1819), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles Edn. 2, 15: 198-199

• Etymology: "from phibaleon, a name used by some Greek poets for the myrtle (Myrtus communis L.)"

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 107 [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 188 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Rutaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 195 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 194 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Rutaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 461-464 [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), Rutaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 489 [secondary reference]

Weston, P.H. & Porteners, M.F. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Phebalium. Flora of New South Wales 2: 255 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. (16 September 1998), New species and nomenclatural changes in Phebalium and related genera (Rutaceae). Nuytsia 12(2): 280 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Eriostemon sect. Phebalium (Vent.) F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Phebalium sect. Euphebalium Benth. nom. inval. nomenclatural synonym: Crowea sect. Phebalium (Vent.) Baill. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Duretto, M.F. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rutaceae (except Eriostemon). Flora of Victoria 4: 184-186 [secondary reference]

Weston, P.H. & Harden G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Phebalium. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 300-301 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 471 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 654 [secondary reference]

Wilson, Paul G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2013), Phebalium. Flora of Australia 26: 458-459 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Eriostemon sect. Phebalium (Vent.) F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Crowea sect. Phebalium (Vent.) Baill. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phebalium sect. Euphebalium Benth. nom. inval.

• Etymology: "from the Greek phibaleon, a name which, according to J.Bauhin (1650), was used by some comic Greek poets for the myrtle (Myrtus communis L.)."

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