Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Alpinia caerulea
Zingiberaceae Martinov
Alpinia caerulea (R.Br.) Benth. , legitimate, scientific
Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 265 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Hellenia caerulea R.Br. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 114 [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 249 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 542 [secondary reference]
  • Vernacular: Moregi
  • Vernacular: Ool-pun
  • Vernacular: Fida
Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 537 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Hellenia caerulea R.Br. legitimate
Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 14 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 60 [secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Zingiberaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 355 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Hellenia caerulea R.Br. legitimate common name: A Native Ginger [n/a]
Smith, R.M. (1990), Alpinia (Zingiberaceae): a proposed new infrageneric classification. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 47(1): 40 [secondary reference]
Wilson, Peter G. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Zingiberaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 255 [secondary reference]
common name: Native Ginger [n/a]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Fruits of the Rainforest: 30-31, Fig. 42 [secondary reference]
common name: Native Ginger [n/a]
Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 313 [secondary reference]
Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs. Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs: 92 [secondary reference]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 562 [secondary reference]
common name: Lemon-scented Ginger [n/a] common name: Blue Ginger [n/a] common name: Native Ginger [n/a]
Jessup, L.W. (2005), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 3 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Alpinia coerulea Benth. orth. var.
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Alpinia coerulea Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Hellenia caerulea R.Br. legitimate
  • APC Comment: The spelling of the species epithet has varied between coerulea and caerulea. Brown, Prodr. (1810) seems to have used the ae ligature (the typography is not clear), but Bentham, Fl. Austral. 6: 265 (1873) adopted the spelling coerulea (with oe ligature). Smith, Fl. Austral. 45: 32 (1983) also adopted the coerulea spelling, but Chapman, APNI 164, 1574 (1991) used the spelling caerulea. The last is adopted here as it seems to reflect the original orthography, but some prefer the 'oe'.
  • APC Dist.: Qld, NSW
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Alpinia coerulea Benth. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Hellenia caerulea R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Hellenia coerulea Domin orth. var.
  • APC Dist.: Qld, NSW
Bean, A.R. (20 April 2020), Lectotypification of three species names of Australian Alpinia Roxb. (Zingiberaceae). Austrobaileya 10(4): 663 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Hellenia caerulea R.Br. legitimate