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.

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Showing Citriobatus

Pittosporaceae R.Br.

Citriobatus A.Cunn. ex Loudon

, legitimate

, scientific

Loudon, J.C. (1832), Loudon's Hortus Britannicus Edn. 2, 1

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585

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Comment: Description very brief. See expanded description by Putterlick, Syn. Pittosporearum (1839) 4; R.Bakker & C.G.G.J. van Steenis, Fl. Males. ser. I, 5 (1957) 361–362 do not accept Loudon's description as adequate, and state that the genus should date from Putterlick's description of 1839. Index Nominum Genericorum 1 (1979) 374, seems to have accepted this view, however, brief as it is, a description is given by Loudon.

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1

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121-122

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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7

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ixiosporum F.Muell.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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12

BHL

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ixiosporum F.Muell.

legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

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40, 292

[secondary reference]

common name:

Orange thorn

[n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

:

43

[secondary reference]

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II

:

22-23

[secondary reference]

common name:

Orange Thorn

[n/a]

Etymology: From the Greek citros (a citron) and batos (a thorn).

Bakker, K. & Steenis, C.G.G.J. van (March 1957), Pittosporaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

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360-361

[secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

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198

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

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174

[secondary reference]

Koch, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Pittosporaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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277

[secondary reference]

Makinson, R.O. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Pittosporaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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73

[secondary reference]

Cayzer, L.W., Crisp, M.D. & Telford, I.R.H. (15 December 2000), Revision of Pittosporum (Pittosporaceae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

861

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pittosporum Banks ex Gaertn.

nom. cons.

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

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401

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Citriobathus A.Cunn. ex Juss.

orth. var.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pittosporum Banks ex Gaertn.

nom. cons.

Cayzer, L.W., Utteridge, T.M.A., & Chandler, G.T. (27 July 2023), Pittosporum (Pittosporaceae) in Malesia and Papuasia.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

220

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pittosporum Banks ex Gaertn.

nom. cons.