Atherospermataceae R.Br.
Atherosperma moschatum Labill. , legitimate, scientific
Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1806), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 2(23): 74-75, t. 224 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "in capite Van-Diemen."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1 January 1853), Notes on the indigenous plants of Victoria. The Argus Newspaper 1774: 5 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 6, 18 [secondary reference]
Anonymous (1854), Plantae Muellerianae: Atherospermeae. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 26: 345 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (May 1854), First general report of the Government Botanist, Dr. F. Muller, on the vegetation of the colony of Victoria, in Australia (Continued). Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 6: 153 BHL [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (24 October 1854), Second general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the Colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 6 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 24-25, 220 [secondary reference]
common name: Native Sassafras [n/a]
  • Etymology: "The flowers are fragrant... reminds of that of nutmeg, inducing Labillardière to apply to the tree its specific name."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 74 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 3 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 5 BHL [secondary reference]
Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 164 BHL [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 31 [secondary reference]
common name: Satinwood [n/a]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 419 [secondary reference]
common name: Australian Sassafras [n/a]
Ewart, A.J. (1925), Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters: 122, Pl. LII [secondary reference]
common name: Southern Sassafras [n/a]
Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 674 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Atherosperma integrifolium A.Cunn. ex A.DC. nom. inval., pro syn.
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 131 [secondary reference]
common name: Black Sassafras [n/a]
Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 594-595, Fig. 125 [secondary reference]
common name: Sassafras [n/a]
McGillivray, D.J. (12 June 1973), Michel Gandoger's names of Australian plants. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 4(6): 333 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Atherosperma muticum Gand. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atherosperma elongatum Gand. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atherosperma dilatatum Gand. legitimate
Floyd, A.G. (1978), Forestry Commission of New South Wales Research Note 35: 60-61 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 88 [secondary reference]
Floyd, A.G. (1989), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia: 217 (fig.) -218 [secondary reference]
common name: Black Sassafras [n/a] common name: Southern Sassafras [n/a]
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Monimiaceae s. lat. Flora of New South Wales 1: 131 [secondary reference]
common name: Black Sassafras [n/a] common name: Southern Sassafras [n/a]
Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]
common name: Tasmanian Sassafras [n/a] common name: Sassafras [n/a]
Foreman, D.B. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Monimiaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 26, pl. 2, Fig. 2d-g [secondary reference]
common name: Black Sassafras [n/a] common name: Southern Sassafras [n/a]
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Monimiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 131 [secondary reference]
common name: Southern Sassafras [n/a] common name: Black Sassafras [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Atherosperma moschata Labill. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Atherosperma tasmanica McGill. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Atherosperma integrifolium A.Cunn. ex A.DC. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Atherosperma tasmanicum Gand. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atherosperma muticum Gand. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atherosperma dilatatum Gand. legitimate
  • APC Comment: Species epithet has been widely misspelled as "moschata". The ICBN rules (Art. 62.2) that the generic name takes the gender of the last part of the compound, in this case -sperma (seed), which is neuter.
  • APC Dist.: NSW, Vic, Tas
Foreman, D.B. & Whiffin, T.P. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2007), Atherospermataceae. Flora of Australia 2: 102 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Atherosperma integrifolium A.Cunn. ex A.DC. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Atherosperma tasmanicum Gand. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atherosperma muticum Gand. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atherosperma dilatatum Gand. legitimate
Floyd, A.G. (2008), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia Edn. 2: 83 (fig.) [secondary reference]
common name: Black Sassafras [n/a] common name: Southern Sassafras [n/a]