Blandfordiaceae R.Dahlgren & Clifford
Blandfordia flammea Lindl. ex Paxton , legitimate, scientific
Lindley, J. in Paxton, J. (1849), Paxton's Magazine of Botany 16: 353 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Our drawing ... was made from a specimen which flowered in the possession of Messrs. Low and Son, Nurserymen, Clapton, in October, 1849." [Lindley (1850) gives "Australia ... was received by Messrs. Low and Co., of Clapton, from a correspondent at Sydney, who had received it from Hunter's River. I have specimens from a small swamp of sand and peat at Port Stephens, where it was collected by Mr Alexander Burnett."
Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 24 [secondary reference]
misapplication: Blandfordia cunninghamii Lindl. legitimate by Van Houtte, L.B. in Van Houtte, L.B. (ed.) (1870), Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe, journal general d'horticulture 18: 18, t. 1829
  • Comment: Bentham indicated that Blandfordia aurea "appears... to be a variety of B. flammea", but did not make the varietal combination.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 117 [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 269 [secondary reference]
Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 177, 178-179, Plate XLVIII [secondary reference]
common name: Christmas Bells [n/a]
Ingram, J.W. (1965), Baileya; a Quarterly Journal of Horticultural Taxonomy 13: 51 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Blandfordia grandiflora R.Br. legitimate
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 25 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Blandfordia grandiflora R.Br. legitimate
Henderson, R.J.F. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1987), Blandfordia. Flora of Australia 45: 177 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Blandfordia grandiflora R.Br. legitimate
Henderson, R. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Liliaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 38 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Blandfordia grandiflora R.Br. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Blandfordia grandiflora R.Br. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Blandfordia grandiflora R.Br. legitimate