Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Xanthorrhoeaceae Dumort.
Xanthorrhoea Sol. ex Sm.
, legitimate , scientific
Smith, J.E. (1798) , The Characters of Twenty New Genera of Plants. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 4 :
219
[tax. nov.]
Orthographic variants include XANTORRHOEA, L.Diels, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 35 (1904) 104.
Dryander, J.C. in Koenig, K.D.E. & Sims, J. (ed.) (1 September 1806) , Chloris Novae Hollandiae; or, Catalogue of the Plants of New Holland and Van Dieman's Island hitherto published, as far as they have come to the knowledge of J. Dryander. Annals of Botany 2(3) :
517
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants :
119
[secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906) , The Plants of New South Wales :
267-268
[secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913) , Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants :
566
[secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1922) , Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1 :
110-111
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"Greek xanthos , yellow; rheo , to flow: alluding to the resin ("gum") that flows from the stem."
Ewart, A.J. (1925) , Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters :
52
[secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1943) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1 :
195
[secondary reference]
common name:
blackboy
[n/a]
common name:
yacca
[n/a]
common name:
Grass-tree
[n/a]
Etymology:
"Greek xanthos , yellow, rheo , I flow; alluding to the resin ("gum") that flows from the stem"
Bullock, A.A. (1960) , Nomenclatural notes: XII. The types of some generic names. Kew Bulletin 14(1) :
45
[secondary reference]
Type:
Xanthorrhoea resinosa Pers.
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains :
448
[secondary reference]
common name:
Black Boy
[n/a]
common name:
Grass-tree
[n/a]
Chippendale, G.M. & Murray, L.R. (1963) , Poisonous Plants of the Northern Territory :
32
[secondary reference]
common name:
Grass Tree
[n/a]
Lee, A.T. (1966) , Xanthorrhoeaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 34 :
1-16
[secondary reference]
Lee, A.T. (15 September 1966) , Notes on Xanthorrhoea in Eastern Australia. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 4(1) :
35-54, Figs 1-7, Maps 1-5
[secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory :
108
[secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981) , An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants :
1030, 1221, 1222
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
59
[secondary reference]
Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Liliaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia :
424
[secondary reference]
Bedford, D.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986) , Xanthorrhoea. Flora of Australia 46 :
148-153
[secondary reference]
Bedford, D.J. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987) , Xanthorrhoeaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2 :
750
[secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Xanthorrhoeaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3 :
45
[secondary reference]
common name:
Blackboys
[n/a]
common name:
Grasstrees
[n/a]
Clifford, H.T., Conran, J.G. & Thongpukdee, A. (1992) , Australian Lilies: Native and Naturalised species. Australian Plants 16(132) :
362
[secondary reference]
common name:
Blackboy
[n/a]
common name:
Yacca
[n/a]
common name:
Grasstree
[n/a]
Bedford, D.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Xanthorrhoeaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4 :
62
[secondary reference]
Nelson, E.C. & Bedford, D.J. (June 1993) , The names of the Australian grass-tree: Xanthorrhoea Sm. and Acoroides C.Kite. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 112(2) :
95-105
[secondary reference]
Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Xanthorrhoeaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2 :
731
[secondary reference]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994) , Xanthorrhoeaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B :
419
[secondary reference]
common name:
Grass-trees
[n/a]
Clifford, H.T. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998) , Xanthorrhoeaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3 :
469
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1 :
463
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Xantorrhoea Diels
orth. var.
orthographic variant:
Xanthorrhaea F.M.Bailey
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Acaroides Sol. ex Kite
nom. inval.
APC Dist.:
WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3 :
914
[secondary reference]
Chase, M.W., Reveal, J.L. & Fay, M.F. (2009) , A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2) :
135
[secondary reference]
Soltis, D.E., Smith, S.A., Cellinese, N., Wurdack, K.J., Tank, D.C., Brockington, S.F., Refulio-Rodriguez, N.F., Walker, J.B., Moore, M.J., Carlswars, B.S., Bell, C.D., Latvis, M., Crawley, S., Black, C., Diouf, D., Xi, Z., Rushworth, C.A., Gitzendanner, M.A., Sytsma, K.J., Qui, Y., Hilu, K.W., Davis, C.C., Sanderson, M.J., Beaman, R.S., Olmstead, R.G., Judd, W.S., Donoghue, M.J. & Soltis, P.S. (1 April 2011) , Angiosperm Phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa. American Journal of Botany 98(4) :
Fig. 2B
[secondary reference]