Proteaceae Juss.
Persoonia pungens W.Fitzg.
, legitimate, scientific
[Fitzgerald, W.V. (January 1912), New West Australian plants. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 50]:
23
[tax. nov.]
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Type:
"Kellerberrin; F.H. Vachel, Prope Kellerberrin; leg. W.V.F."
[Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2]:
65
[secondary reference]
[Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1989), Banksias, Waratahs & Grevilleas and all other plants in the Australian Proteaceae family]:
493 (map)
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Etymology:
"From Latin, pungens, terminating in a hard, sharp point; referring to the leaves."
[Weston, P.H. (18 September 1994), The Western Australian species of subtribe Persooniinae (Proteaceae: Persooniodeae: Persoonieae). Telopea 6(1)]:
107-108, Fig. 18b (map)
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Lectotype:
(here designated): on a sheet labelled 'Kellerberrin Nov 1907 spreading rigidly branched 18 in high coll. W V F.'; annotated by Fitzgerald (NSW 154139). Isolectotypes: BM, NSW (2 sheets), PERTH.
[Weston, P.H. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Proteaceae subfam. 1. Persoonioideae. Flora of Australia 16]:
106, Fig. 41, Map 86
APC
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