Cycadaceae Pers.
Cycas basaltica C.A.Gardner , legitimate, scientific
Gardner, C.A. (1923), Botanical notes : Kimberley Division of Western Australia. Bulletin (Western Australian Forests Department) 32: 31 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Basalt hills near the Lawley river, in open forests ... The type is 1490, of the Forests Department Herbarium.
Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 3 [secondary reference]
Schuster, J. in Engler, H.G.A. (1932), Cycadaceae. Das Pflanzenreich 99(4,1): 78 [basionym]
basionym of: Cycas media var. basaltica (C.A.Gardner) J.Schust. legitimate
Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 4 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 27 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cycadaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 51, Fig. 6A [secondary reference]
Jones, D.L. (1993), Cycads Of The World: 132 [secondary reference]
Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]
common name: Zamia Palm [n/a]
Hill, K.D. (14 November 1996), A taxonomic revision of the genus Cycas (Cyadaceae) in Australia. Telopea 7(1): 58 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Cycas media var. basaltica (C.A.Gardner) J.Schust. legitimate
Hill, K.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Cycadaceae. Flora of Australia 48: 632, 634, Fig. 212, Map 566 APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Cycas media var. basaltica (C.A.Gardner) J.Schust. legitimate
  • APC Comment: De Laubenfels & Adema (1998) treated this taxon as synonymous with C. normanbyana, which they recognised as a species distinct from C. media. A population intermediate between C. lane-poolei and C. basaltica is recorded (Hill, 1998).
  • APC Dist.: WA
Laubenfels, D.J. de & Adema, F. (1998), A taxonomic revision of the genera Cycas and Epicycas gen.nov. (Cycadaceae). Blumea 43(2): 366 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Cycas normanbyana F.Muell. legitimate