Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 498 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Port Keats and Cambridge Gulf, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham; Victoria river, F. Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Sweers Island, Henne; in the interior, lat. 18°35′, M'Douall Stuart's Expedition. Queensland? Some specimens from Broad sound and Endeavour river, R. Brown."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 50 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 1: 237 [basionym]

basionym of: Myrobalanus volucris (R.Br. ex Benth.) Kuntze legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 180 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 250 [secondary reference]

Byrnes, N.B. (1977), A revision of Combretaceae in Australia. Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium 20: 15 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Island a 28 (Sweers Island) 17 Nov. 1802, R. Brown (BM, lectotype; K, iso)"

taxonomic synonym: Terminalia volucris var. coriacea Benth. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 120 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 21 [secondary reference]

Pedley, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Appendix: Combretaceae. Flora of Australia 18: 327 [basionym]

basionym of: Terminalia oblongata subsp. volucris (R.Br. ex Benth.) Pedley legitimate

Pedley, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1990), Combretaceae. Flora of Australia 18: 271 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Terminalia oblongata subsp. volucris (R.Br. ex Benth.) Pedley legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Combretaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 557 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Terminalia oblongata F.Muell. legitimate

Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]

common name: Rosewood [n/a]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 148-150, Fig. 46 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Terminalia oblongata subsp. volucris (R.Br. ex Benth.) Pedley legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 90 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Terminalia volucris R.Br. ex Benth. var. volucris legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Myrobalanus volucris (R.Br. ex Benth.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Terminalia oblongata subsp. volucris (R.Br. ex Benth.) Pedley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Terminalia volucris var. coriacea Benth. legitimate

• APC Comment: Treated as Terminalia oblongata subsp. volucris in Qld.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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