Malvaceae Juss.
Howittia F.Muell. , legitimate, scientific
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants: 37 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Howittia trilocularis F.Muell.
  • Comment: See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.
Mueller, F.J.H. von in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1856), Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants, chiefly collected within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 8: 8-9 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 167 [secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 198 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 14 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 25 BHL [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 378 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Named in 1855 after Dr. Godfrey Howitt, a physician of Melbourne, interested in botany."
Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 561 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Named in 1855 after Dr. Godfrey Howitt, a physician of Melbourne, interested in botany."
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 207 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 143 [secondary reference]
Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 331 [secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Howittia. Flora of Victoria 3: 334 [secondary reference]
Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 331 [secondary reference]
Bayer, C. & Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Malvaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 306 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
isonym: Howittia F.Muell. isonym
  • APC Dist.: SA, NSW, Vic
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 415 [secondary reference]