Proteaceae Juss.
Petrophile plumosa Meisn.
, legitimate, scientific
[Meisner, C.D.F. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1855), New Proteaceae of Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 7]:
69
[tax. nov.]
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Type:
"Drummond, coll. vi. n. 164"
[Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants]:
65
[secondary reference]
[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]:
506 (map)
[secondary reference]
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Etymology:
"From Latin, plumosus, feathery, referring to the long hairs of the perianth."
[Hopper, S.D., van Leeuwen, S.J., Brown, A.P. & Patrick, S.J. (1990), Western Australia's Endangered Flora]:
96, 118, 135
[secondary reference]
[Foreman, D.B. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1995), Petrophile. Flora of Australia 16]:
181, Figs 50, 94, Map 168
[secondary reference]
[Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census]:
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APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Petrophila plumosa Meisn.
orth. var.