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 Cyathea baileyana

Cyatheaceae Kaulf.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Polypodiidae(subcl.)
Cyatheales(ordo)
Cyatheaceae(fam.)
Cyathea(gen.)
baileyana(sp.)

Cyathea baileyana (Domin) Domin

, legitimate

, scientific

Domin, K. (1929), Pteridophyta

:

262

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Alsophila baileyana Domin

legitimate

Tindale, M.D. (26 June 1956), The Cyatheaceae of Australia.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium

:

333-334, Pl. 9, Pl. 11 (5)

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Alsophila baileyana Domin

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Alsophila rebeccae var. commutata F.M.Bailey

legitimate

Holttum, R.E. (1964), The tree-ferns of the genus Cyathea in Australasia and the Pacific.

:

257-258

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Alsophila baileyana Domin

legitimate

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1

:

10

[secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2

:

10

[secondary reference]

Wrigley, J.W. & Fagg, M. (1996), Australian Native Plants: propagation, cultivation and use in landscaping Edn. 4

:

303

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Cyathea australis ‘Wig Tree Fern’

[default]

Bostock, P.D. in McCarthy, P.M. (ed.) (1998), Cyatheaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

201

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Alsophila baileyana Domin

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Alsophila rebeccae var. commutata F.M.Bailey

legitimate

misapplication: Alsophila capensis (L.f.) J.Sm. legitimate by

Bailey, F.M. in Meston, A. (ed.) (1889), Botany of the Bellenden-Ker Expedition.

Report of the Government Scientific Expedition to the Bellenden-Ker Range upon the Flora and Fauna of that part of the Colony

: 74

common name:

Wig Tree Fern

[n/a]

APC Dist.: Qld

Tindale, M.D. & Roy, S.K. (23 December 2002), A cytotaxonomic survey of the Pteridophyta of Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

853

[secondary reference]

Dong, S.Y. & Zuo, Z.Y. (2018), On the recognition of Gymnosphaera as a distinct genus in Cyatheaceae.

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

:

15

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Gymnosphaera baileyana (Domin) S.Y.Dong

legitimate

Field, A.R. (2 January 2020), Classification and typification of Australian lycophytes and ferns based on Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification PPG I.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

34

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Alsophila baileyana Domin

legitimate

Brown, G.K. & Bostock, P.D. (December 2020), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2019 to 2020.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2020

:

7

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Alsophila baileyana Domin

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Alsophila baileyana Domin

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Gymnosphaera baileyana (Domin) S.Y.Dong

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Alsophila rebeccae var. commutata F.M.Bailey

legitimate

misapplication: Alsophila capensis (L.f.) J.Sm. legitimate by

Bailey, F.M. in Meston, A. (ed.) (1889), Botany of the Bellenden-Ker Expedition.

Report of the Government Scientific Expedition to the Bellenden-Ker Range upon the Flora and Fauna of that part of the Colony

: 74

APC Comment: Treated as Alsophila baileyana in Qld.
APC Dist.: Qld