Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Apocynaceae Juss.
Cryptostegia grandiflora R.Br. , legitimate , scientific
Brown, R. (1820) , Cryptostegia grandiflora. The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment 5
t. 435
[tax. nov.]
Type:
"native of the peninsula of India, ... The drawing was made from a specimen sent us by the kindness of Sir Abraham Hume, by whom it is cultivated in the hothouse at Wormleybury."
common name:
Large-flowered Cryptostegia [n/a]
Bailey, F.M. (1913) , Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants
325
[secondary reference]
White, C.T. (1923) , Queensland Agricultural Journal Series 2 19
286, t. 57
[secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986) , Asclepiadaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2
320
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Nerium grandiflorum Roxb. nom. illeg.
common name:
Rubber Vine [n/a]
Marohasy, J. & Forster, P.I. (30 October 1991) , A taxonomic revision of Cryptostegia R.Br. (Asclepiadaceae: Periplocoideae). Australian Systematic Botany 4(3)
574-575
[secondary reference]
Lectotype:
"Edwards's Botanical Register 5 (1 Feb. 1820) t. 435 (1819)"
taxonomic synonym:
Nerium grandiflorum Roxb. nom. illeg.
Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994) , Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest
301
[secondary reference]
Forster, P.I. in Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996) , Asclepiadaceae. Flora of Australia 28
204, Fig. 65, Map 233
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Nerium grandiflorum Roxb. nom. illeg.
common name:
Rubbervine [n/a]
APC Comment:
Authorship sometimes ascribed to "Roxb. ex R.Br.", but there is no indication in the protologue that Roxburgh is the author of this name.
APC Dist.:
Qld (naturalised)
Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999) , Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs. Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs
57
[secondary reference]
Klackenberg, J. (2001) , Revision of the genus Cryptostegia R.Br. (Apocynaceae, Periplocoideae). Adansonia 23(2)
212-215, Figs 2A (map), 3
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Nerium grandiflorum Roxb. nom. illeg.
Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003) , Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines
Code 3290
[secondary reference]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004) , Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest
36-37
[secondary reference]
common name:
Rubbervine [n/a]
