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.

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Showing Melaleuca decora

Myrtaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Myrtales(ordo)
Myrtaceae(fam.)
Melaleuca(gen.)
decora(sp.)

Melaleuca decora (Salisb.) Britten

, legitimate

, scientific

Britten, J. (1916), The plants of Salisbury's "Prodromus" (1796).

Journal of Botany, British and Foreign

:

62

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Metrosideros decora Salisb.

legitimate

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

:

293

[secondary reference]

Blake, S.T. (1968), A revision of Melaleuca leucadendron and its allies (Myrtaceae).

Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium

:

67-68

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Myrtoleucodendron genistifolium (Sm.) Kuntze

legitimate

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1

:

186

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

167

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Melaleuca genistifolia Sm.

legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Myrtaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

144

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Metrosideros decora Salisb.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melaleuca genistifolia Sm.

legitimate

Byrnes, N.B. (24 July 1986), A revision of Melaleuca L. (Myrtaceae) in northern and eastern Australia, 3.

Austrobaileya

:

265-266

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Metrosideros decora Salisb.

legitimate

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Myrtaceae - Melaleuca to Pilidostigma.

Flora of New South Wales

:

178

[secondary reference]

Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names

:

-

[secondary reference]

common name:

Paper bark

[n/a]

Craven, L.A. & Lepschi, B.J. (21 December 1999), Enumeration of the species and infraspecific taxa of Melaleuca (Myrtaceae) occurring in Australia and Tasmania.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

871

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Metrosideros decora Salisb.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melaleuca genistifolia Sm.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Myrtoleucodendron genistifolium (Sm.) Kuntze

legitimate

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Melaleuca.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

204

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Metrosideros decora Salisb.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Melaleuca decora (Salisb.) Domin

isonym

taxonomic synonym:

Melaleuca genistifolia Sm.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Myrtoleucodendron genistifolium (Sm.) Kuntze

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Melaleuca genistifolia Sm. var. genistifolia

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW