Ericaceae Juss.
Trochocarpa R.Br. , legitimate, scientific
Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 548 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Trochocarpa laurina R.Br.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (September 1867), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(42): 74 BHL [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Pentachondra R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Decaspora R.Br. legitimate
Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 165 BHL [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Decaspora R.Br. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 107 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Pentachondra R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Decaspora R.Br. legitimate
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 241, 243 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 295 [secondary reference]
Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 70 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: From the Greek trochos, a wheel, and karpos, a fruit, because the ribbed fruit resembles a cog-wheel.
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 341 [secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 430 [secondary reference]
Sleumer, H.O. (1964), Florae Malesianae Precursores XXXVII. Materials towards the knowledge of the Epacridaceae mainly in Asia, Malaysia and the Pacific. Blumea 12(1): 163-168 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Decaspora R.Br. legitimate
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 114 [secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Epacridaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 253 [secondary reference]
Wiecek, B. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Trochocarpa. Flora of New South Wales 3: 433 [secondary reference]
Albrecht, D.E. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Epacridaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 489 [secondary reference]
Weiller, C.M. (13 September 1996), Reassessment of Cyathodes (Epacridaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 9(4): 496 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]
pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Cyathodes Labill. legitimate
Weiller, C.M. (24 January 2000), Leptecophylla, a new genus for species formerly included in Cyathodes (Epacridaceae). Muelleria 12(2): 196 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]
pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Leptecophylla C.M.Weiller legitimate
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 166 [secondary reference]
Stevens, P.F. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Ericaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 6: 180 [secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 877 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Decaspora sect. Trochocarpus (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Decaspora R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Decaspora sect. Eudecaspora Kuntze nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Decaspora R.Br. sect. Decaspora legitimate
  • APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas