Malvaceae Juss.
Brachychiton acerifolius (A.Cunn. ex G.Don) F.Muell. , legitimate, scientific
Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1857), Notes made during the recent Expedition across the Northern Portion of Australia. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 9: 198 BHL [comb. nov.]
basionym: Sterculia acerifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 15 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 26 BHL [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 385 [secondary reference]
Domin, K. (1928), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 968 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Sterculia acerifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don legitimate
Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 574 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia acerifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don legitimate common name: Flame Tree [n/a]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 203 [secondary reference]
common name: Flame Tree [n/a]
Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 226 [secondary reference]
Hyland, B.P.M. (1971), A key to the common rainforest trees between Townsville and Cooktown, based on leaf and bark features: 28, Code 124 [secondary reference]
common name: Flametree [n/a] common name: Flame Kurrajong [n/a]
Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 38 [secondary reference]
common name: Flame Tree [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 204 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia acerifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don legitimate
Hyland, B.P.M. (1982), A revised card key to rainforest trees of North Queensland: 30, 117, 137, Code 124 [secondary reference]
common name: Flame Tree [n/a] common name: Flame Kurrajong [n/a]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Sterculiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 83 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia acerifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don legitimate common name: Flame Kurrajong [n/a] common name: Flame Tree [n/a]
Floyd, A.G. (1989), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia: 389-390 (fig.) [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia acerifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don legitimate common name: Illawarra Flame Tree [n/a] common name: Flame Tree [n/a] common name: Flame Kurrajong [n/a]
Guymer, G.P. (1989), A taxonomic revision of Brachychiton (Sterculiaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 1(3): 225-227 [secondary reference]
  • Neotype: 'Plant cultivated in London' [not located]. Neotype: Illawarra? without date, A.Cunningham s.n. (K, photo BRI)
nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia acerifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Clompanus acerifolia (G.Don) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Brachychiton acerifolius (A.Cunn. ex G.Don) F.Muell. var. acerifolius legitimate
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Sterculiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 312 [secondary reference]
common name: Illawarra Flame Tree [n/a] common name: Flame Tree [n/a]
Christophel, D.C. & Hyland, B.P.M. in Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Leaf Atlas of Australian Tropical Rain Forest Trees. Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system: 20, 26, 237, pl. 175(b), Code 124 [secondary reference]
Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 1: 95, 133, 146, Code 124 [secondary reference]
common name: Illawarra Flame Tree [n/a] common name: Flametree [n/a] common name: Flame Kurrajong [n/a]
Hyland, B.P.M. & Whiffin, T.P. (1993), Australian tropical rain forest trees: an interactive identification system 2: 524, Code 124 [secondary reference]
Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]
common name: White Crowsfoot [n/a]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Fruits of the Rainforest: 58-59, Fig. 94 [secondary reference]
common name: Flame Kurrajong [n/a] common name: Flame Tree [n/a]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 109 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia acerifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don legitimate common name: Flame Tree [n/a]
Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 312 [secondary reference]
Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs. Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs: 89 [secondary reference]
Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Sterculiaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 312 [secondary reference]
common name: Illawarra Flame Tree [n/a] common name: Flame Tree [n/a]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 528 [secondary reference]
common name: Flame Kurrajong [n/a] common name: Flame Tree [n/a] common name: Illawarra Flame Tree [n/a]
Kodela, P.G. (13 November 2006), Pollen morphology of some rainforest taxa occurring in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. Telopea 11(3): 368, 387, Fig. 13c [secondary reference]
Floyd, A.G. (2008), Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia Edn. 2: 9 (photo), 16 (photo), 208-209 (fig.) [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia acerifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don legitimate common name: Flame Tree [n/a] common name: Flame Kurrajong [n/a] common name: Illawarra Flame Tree [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Brachychiton acerifolium Domin orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia acerifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Clompanus acerifolia (G.Don) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Brachychiton acerifolius (A.Cunn. ex G.Don) F.Muell. subsp. acerifolius legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Clompanus acerifolius Guymer orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Sterculia acerifolium P.S.Green orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Sterculia acerifolia G.Don nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Brachychiton accerifolium Macarthur & C.Moore nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Brachychiton acerifolius subsp. typicus A.Terracc. nom. inval. isonym: Brachychiton acerifolius (A.Cunn. ex G.Don) F.Muell. isonym
  • APC Comment: The name "Brachychiton acerifolius (G.Don) Macarthur var. acerifolius" is listed by A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 454 (1991), but this autonym does not exist as no infraspecific taxa have been published at this rank.
  • APC Dist.: Qld, NSW (native and doubtfully naturalised), LHI (doubtfully naturalised)