Apiaceae Lindl.
Oreomyrrhis brevipes Mathias & Constance , legitimate, scientific
Mathias, M.E. & Constance, L. (1955), The genus Oreomyrrhis (Umbelliferae), a problem in south Pacific distribution. University of California Publications in Botany 27(6): 390, Fig. 14, d-f [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "New South Wales, Scrubby Range, Snowy Mountains, March, 1890, W. Bauerlen. (NSW 16,552–type; UC – type fragment; US)."
Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 202, Fig. 231-2 [secondary reference]
common name: Rock Carraway [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 66 [secondary reference]
Powell, J.M. & Brooks, A.K. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Oreomyrrhis. Flora of New South Wales 3: 97 [secondary reference]
Jobson, P.C. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Oreomyrrhis. Flora of Victoria 4: 270, Fig. 52c [secondary reference]
common name: Caraway [n/a]
Chung, K.-F. (2007), Inclusion of the South Pacific alpine genus Oreomyrrhis (Apiaceae) in Chaerophyllum based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences. Systematic Botany 32(3): 678 [basionym]
basionym of: Chaerophyllum brevipes (Mathias & Constance) K.F.Chung legitimate
National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]
common name: Rock Carraway [n/a] common name: Branched Caraway [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Chaerophyllum brevipes (Mathias & Constance) K.F.Chung legitimate
  • APC Comment: Treated as Chaerophyllum brevipes in Vic. P.C.Jobson (in N.G.Walsh & T.J.Entwisle (eds), Fl. Victoria 4: 270, 1999) records a probable hybrid between Oreomyrrhis brevipes and O. argentea from Vic.
  • APC Dist.: NSW, Vic