Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.
Lectotype:"Northern Territory: swamps near Providence Hill, Oct. 1855, F.Mueller s.n. (lecto, here designated: MEL 2295068)."
Etymology:"Derivation not given by Thwaites (1864), but probably derived from the Latin undulatus (undulate), in reference to the flexuous inflorescence branches."
Text:"We have located only a single Mueller collection corresponding to Chaetospora fimbristyloides, but the label locality does not match the protologue exactly. However, it is in the same broad region, as is common for Mueller collections (which often have multiple differently expressed localities on labels for the same specimen and citations from that previously unexplored region). We have designated this specimen as lectotype, because we do not wish to presume that it is a holotype, because Mueller sent many of his collections to other institutions after they were named, and duplicate material or additional collections may be located elsewhere."
