Cupressaceae Gray
Athrotaxis x laxifolia Hook.
, legitimate, named hybrid
[Hooker, W.J. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1843), Icones Plantarum 6]:
t. 573
[tax. nov.]
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Type:
"Tasmania, Ronald Gunn Esq. 1833 (n. 369)."
[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]:
88
[secondary reference]
[Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants]:
109
[secondary reference]
[Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora]:
277
[secondary reference]
[Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1]:
7
[secondary reference]
[Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1]:
6-7
[secondary reference]
[Hill, K.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Cupressaceae. Flora of Australia 48]:
572
APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Arthrotaxis laxifolia Hook.
orth. var.
pro parte taxonomic synonym:
Arthrotaxis tetragona Hook.
orth. var.
pro parte taxonomic synonym:
Athrotaxis tetragona Hook.
legitimate
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Text:
"Both names [i.e. Athrotaxis laxifolia Hook. and Athrotaxis tetragona Hook.] are based on R.C.Gunn 369, which represents hybrid plants, the parents being A. selaginoides and A. cupressoides. Such hybrid individuals are widespread although not common in areas where the two parent species occur, and the name A. laxifolia has been widely used for these. Gunn's number series referred to his concepts of the species, not to individual collections. Several specimens may consequently bear the same number, and in some cases these may be referable to different species."