Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Pittosporum tinifolium
Pittosporaceae R.Br.
Pittosporum tinifolium A.Cunn. , legitimate, scientific
Cunningham, A. (September 1839), Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor. Annals of Natural History 4: 109, adnot. BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "In ora orientali inter tropicam: ad fluvium Endeavour dict., in locis saxosis humidis necnon ad ripas fluvii a littore remotis – 1819, A. Cunningham."
  • Comment: Cunningham gives the species epithet as linifolium but his description begins “foliis elliptico-oblongis…”. G.Bentham, Fl. Austral. 1: 112 (1863), indicated that the original spelling was a typographic error for tinifolium. The spelling used in Cunningham’s protologue is thus here corrected following Art. 60.1 (Shenzhen Code, 2018).
Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 112 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Text: "P. tinifolium (linifolium by an error of the press)..."
Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 112 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Pittosporum ferrugineum W.T.Aiton legitimate
Jackson, B.D. (27 October 1894), Index Kewensis 2(3): 549 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Text: "linifolium... err. typ. = tinifolium."
Domin, K. (1926), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 22(89): 712 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Pittosporum ferrugineum W.T.Aiton legitimate
Cooper, R.C. (1950), The Australian and New Zealand species of Pittosporum. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 43(2): 177 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Pittosporum ferrugineum W.T.Aiton legitimate
Cayzer, L.W., Crisp, M.D. & Telford, I.R.H. (15 December 2000), Revision of Pittosporum (Pittosporaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 13(6): 892 [basionym]
basionym of: Pittosporum ferrugineum subsp. tinifolium (A.Cunn.) L.W.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Pittosporum ferrugineum subsp. tinifolium (A.Cunn.) L.W.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford legitimate
Cayzer, L.W. & Chandler, G.T. (18 December 2017), Pittosporum tinifolium A.Cunn.: a corrected name and reinstatement at species level for the Queensland species currently known as the rusty-leaved pittosporum, Pittosporum ferrugineum subspecies linifolium (A.Cunn.) L.Cayzer et al. (Pittosporaceae). Austrobaileya 10(1): 205 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Pittosporum ferrugineum subsp. tinifolium (A.Cunn.) L.W.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pittosporum ferrugineum subsp. linifolium L.W.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford orth. var.
  • Comment: "First, the epithet linifolium needs correction. Bentham (1863: 112) states quite emphatically in his Flora Australiensis that the species name ‘linifolium’ was a printing error: ‘P. tinifolium (linifolium by an error of the press) A.Cunn. ...’. There is also no suggestion here by Bentham, nor in the (apparently error prone) protologue publication that the manuscript name should be attributed to Richard Cunningham, as cited by Chapman (1991), in the Australian Plant Name Index. Accordingly, this species should be cited as Pittosporum tinifolium A.Cunn.
Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2018), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2017 to 2018. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2018: 11 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Pittosporum ferrugineum subsp. tinifolium (A.Cunn.) L.W.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Pittosporum linifolium A.Cunn. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Pittosporum ferrugineum subsp. linifolium L.W.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Pittosporum ferrugineum subsp. tinifolium (A.Cunn.) L.W.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pittosporum ovatifolium F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pittosporum queenslandicum Domin legitimate
  • APC Dist.: Qld