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.
Type:as "Port Jackson, R. Brown, Iter Austral. No. 5773, 1803 (BM); photograph only seen, specimen examined and reported on by Hj. Eichler, Australian Liaison Officer at kew, 1962."
APC Comment:Lee (1966) regarded X arenaria as being a hybrid between X. minor and X. australis. However, X minor is no longer considered to be present in Tas, the plants former identitified as that species now being referred to X. arenaria and X. bracteata.
misapplied to:
XanthorrhoeabracteataR.Br.legitimate
by Hooker, J.D.(3 May 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae2(6): 59
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misapplied to:
XanthorrhoeabracteataR.Br.legitimate
by Bentham, G.(March 1878), Flora Australiensis7: 144