Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Callicoma
Cunoniaceae R.Br.
Callicoma Andrews , legitimate, scientific
Andrews, H.C. (1809), The Botanist's Repository for New, and Rare Plants 9(112-116): t. 566 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Callicoma serratifolia Andrews
  • Comment: Stafleu & Cowan, Tax. Lit. ed. 2, 1 (1976) 51 give the author as "probably ... George Jackson", but as there is no such indication in the work itself, Andrews has been accepted here as the author.
Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 440 BHL [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Calycomis R.Br. ex D.Don nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 48 [secondary reference]
pro parte taxonomic synonym: Calycomis R.Br. ex D.Don nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 169 [secondary reference]
Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 53 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: From the Greek kalos (beautiful) and kome (hair), referring to the long stamens, which make the clusters of flowers look like beautiful hairy balls.
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 216 [secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 546 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 109 [secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Cunoniaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 225, 227 [secondary reference]
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Cunoniaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 521 [secondary reference]
Carpenter, R.J. & Buchanan, A.M. (31 May 1993), Oligocene leaves, fruit and flowers of the Cunoniaceae from Cethana, Tasmania. Australian Systematic Botany 6(2): 92-93 [secondary reference]
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Cunoniaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 521 [secondary reference]
Bradford, J.C., Fortune Hopkins, H.C. & Barnes, R.W. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Cunoniaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 6: 107 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Calycomis R.Br. orth. var. orthographic variant: Callicomis Wittst. orth. var. orthographic variant: Calocoma T.Post & Kuntze orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Calycomis T.Nees legitimate
  • APC Dist.: Qld, NSW
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 138 [secondary reference]