Myrtaceae Juss.
Scholtzia capitata F.Muell. ex Benth. , legitimate, scientific
Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 69 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "W. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield, Drummond, n. 134."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 54 [basionym]
basionym of: Baeckea capitata (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. legitimate
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 131 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Baeckea capitata (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Baeckea capitata (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scholtzia sp. Yerina Springs (N.Hoyle 517) WA Herbarium [n/a]
  • APC Dist.: WA
Rye, B.L. (12 April 2017), New lectotypes and synonyms in the Western Australian genus Scholtzia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 28: 161 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "Murchison River, Western Australia, 1859–1863, A.F. Oldfield s.n. (lecto: MEL 2278625, here designated; isolecto: K 000357124, MEL 2278624)."
nomenclatural synonym: Baeckea capitata (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scholtzia sp. Yerina Springs (N.Hoyle 517) WA Herbarium [n/a]
Rye, B.L. (28 March 2019), An update to the taxonomy of some Western Australian genera of Myrtaceae tribe Chamelaucieae. 6. Scholtzia. Nuytsia 30: 35 (Table 1), 49-51, Fig. 3A (map) [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Baeckea capitata (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Scholtzia sp. Shark Bay (M.E.Trudgen 7429) WA Herbarium [n/a] taxonomic synonym: Scholtzia sp. Yerina Springs (N.Hoyle 517) WA Herbarium [n/a] common name: Pom-pom Scholtzia [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From the Latin capitatus (capitate, head-like), referring to the head-like arrangement of the flowers, which are actually in a condensed dichasial cyme."
Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (10 December 2019), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2019. Nuytsia 30: 348 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Scholtzia sp. Shark Bay (M.E.Trudgen 7429) WA Herbarium [n/a]