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 Xanthorrhoea preissii

Xanthorrhoeaceae Dumort.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Asparagales(ordo)
Xanthorrhoeaceae(fam.)
Xanthorrhoea(gen.)
preissii(sp.)

Xanthorrhoea preissii Endl.

, legitimate

, scientific

Endlicher, S.F.L. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1846), Irideae.

Plantae Preissianae

:

39

[tax. nov.]

Type: "In solo sublimoso prope Bojekar, York, 22. Mart. 1840. Herb. Preiss. No. 1620."

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

:

119

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

49

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Xanthorrhoea reflexa D.A.Herb.

legitimate

Bedford, D.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Appendix: Xanthorrhoea.

Flora of Australia

:

228

APC

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "York [vicinity of Toodyay, perhaps the present-day Boyagerring Ck which flows to Toodyay from 10 km NE], W.A., 22 Mar. 1840, L.Preiss 1620; lecto (here chosen): MEL 625774."

APC Dist.: WA

Bedford, D.J. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Xanthorrhoea.

Flora of Australia

:

158, Figs 37P, 39C-D, M, Map 195

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Xanthorrhoea pecoris F.Muell.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Xanthorrhoea reflexa D.A.Herb.

legitimate

Bedford, D.J. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Xanthorrhoeaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

:

751

[secondary reference]

common name:

Blackboy

[n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1

:

465

[secondary reference]

common name:

Balga

[n/a]

common name:

Blackboy

[n/a]

common name:

Grass Tree

[n/a]

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2

:

4 (photo), 260-261, photos 14-17

[secondary reference]

common name:

Grass tree

[n/a]

common name:

Balga

[n/a]

common name:

Grasstree

[n/a]