Ericaceae Juss.
Epacris diosmifolia Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd.
, legitimate, scientific
[Loddiges, C., Loddiges, G. & Loddiges, W. (1830), The Botanical Cabinet 17]:
t. 1634
[tax. nov.]
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Type:
"A native of New Holland, introduced a few years since."
[Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census]:
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APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Epacris diosmaefolia Lodd., G.Lodd. & W.Lodd.
orth. var.
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APC Comment:
A name of uncertain application.
[Turner, I.M. (2016), Rather for the nomenclaturist than for the scientific botanist: The Botanical Cabinet of Conrad Loddiges & Sons. Taxon 65(5)]:
1120
[secondary reference]
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Lectotype:
"(designated here): [illustration] “Epacris diosmaefolia” in Loddiges, Bot. Cab. 17: t. 1634, 1830."
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Text:
"The only portion of the text that might be considered to validate this name is: “has some resemblance to the obtusifolia, but is much larger in all its parts”. The identity of the Loddiges plant remains uncertain."