Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Tecoma capensis
Bignoniaceae Juss.
Tecoma capensis (Thunb.) Lindl. , legitimate, scientific
Lindley, J. (1828), The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment 13: t. 1117 [comb. nov.]
  • Type: "It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence seeds were sent to Kew by Mr. Bowie in 1823."
basionym: Bignonia capensis Thunb. legitimate
White, C.T. (1917), Queensland Agricultural Journal Series 2 8: 270 [secondary reference]
Quirico, A.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Bignoniaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 538 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Tecomaria capensis (Thunb.) Spach legitimate common name: Cape Honeysuckle [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Bignonia capensis Thunb. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Tecomaria capensis (Thunb.) Spach legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Tecomaria capensis (Thunb.) Spach subsp. capensis legitimate
  • APC Comment: Treated as Tecomaria capensis on NI (see P.J.de Lange et al., New Zealand J. Bot. 43: 578 (2005)) and as Tecomaria capensis subsp. capensis in Qld.
  • APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)
Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (24 June 2021), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2020. Nuytsia 32: 4 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "New naturalised record for WA. G.J. Keighery in litt. (15/01/2020)."