Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Alyssum
Brassicaceae Burnett
Alyssum L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 650 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not designated).
Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 293 [secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 71-72 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Meniocus Desv. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 5 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Meniocus Desv. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 9 BHL [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Meniocus Desv. legitimate
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 33 [secondary reference]
common name: Madwort [n/a]
Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 2: 154 [secondary reference]
  • Type: Alyssum montanum L.
Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 249 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Alysson, Greek name of some plant supposed to cure rabies; from a, not; lyssa, madness.
Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 379 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Alysson, Greek name of some plant supposed to cure rabies; from a, not; lyssa madness."
Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 158 [secondary reference]
Carolin, R.C. & Hewson, H.J. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cruciferae (Brassicaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 98 [secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 448 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 90 [secondary reference]
Hewson, H.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (9 December 1982), Brassicaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 305-306 [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)
Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 267 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Meniocus Desv. legitimate
Entwisle, T.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Brassicaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 432 [secondary reference]
Retter, L. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Brassicaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 474 [secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 33 [secondary reference]
Al-Shehbaz, I.A. (September 2012), A generic and tribal synopsis of the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae). Taxon 61(5): 933 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Meniocus Desv. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Meniocus Desv. legitimate
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)