Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Gilruthia osbornei
Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Gilruthia osbornei Ewart & Jean White , legitimate, scientific
Ewart, A.J., White, J. & Rees, B. (1909), Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. 11. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 22(1): 14, t. VII BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Mt. Malcolm (north of Kalgoorlie), West Australia, F. Rodway, 123, Nov., 1906."
  • Etymology: "...(after Professor... Osborne...)."
Grieve, B.J. in Grieve, B.J. & Blackall, W.E. (1982), Supplement. How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia Edn. 2, 4: 75 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 166, 228 [secondary reference]
Anderberg, A.A. (1991), Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 125 [secondary reference]
doubtful taxonomic synonym: Calocephalus skeatsianus Ewart & Jean White legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Gilruthia osborni Ewart & Jean White orth. var. orthographic variant: Gilruthia osbornii Grieve orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Calocephalus skeatsiana Ewart & Jean White orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Calocephalus skeatsianus Ewart & Jean White legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA
Short, P.S. (15 December 2016), Notes concerning the classification of species included in Calocephalus R.Br. s.lat. and Gnephosis Cass. s.lat. (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae), with descriptions of new genera and species. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 29: 188-189 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Calocephalus skeatsiana Ewart & Jean White orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Calocephalus skeatsianus Ewart & Jean White legitimate
  • Etymology: "The generic name and the specific epithet were named for two of Ewart’s colleagues at Melbourne University, Professor John Anderson Gilruth (1871–1937) and Professor William A. Osborne (1873–1967)."
Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021. Nuytsia 33: 8 [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Gilruthia osbornii Grieve orth. var.