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Daviesia buxifolia

Daviesia buxifolia Benth.

Bentham, G. (1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 75
TYPE:   "N.S.Wales. Between Wombin river and False Bay, Mossman. Victoria. Avon Ranges, Macalister and Genoa rivers, F. Mueller. W. Australia. "King George's Sound" (probably to the eastward), Baxter."
COMMENT:   Base name for Daviesia latifolia var. buxifolia (Benth.) C.Moore & E.Betche.

Thompson, J. (1961) Papilionaceae. Flora of New South Wales 101(1): 32-42 (35-36)

Crisp, M.D. (1991) Contributions towards a revision of Daviesia Daviesia Smith (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae). II. The D. latifolia group. Australian Systematic Botany 4(2): 277
LECTO:   "lecto, here chosen: Avon Ranges, F. Mueller s.n (K, sheet ex Herb. Hook., annotated 'Negative No. Kew 919`); isolecto: K (sheet ex Herb. Linnean Society), LD,MEL 77794, 77796 & 77789-9. Syn: Wombin (Wonboyn) River, False Bay, S. Mossman 236, 1850 (K, sheet ex Herb. Benth.); isosyn: BRI,GGE,E,FI,FI-W (2 sheets), K (sheet of uncertain origin but not seen by Bentham), P. Syn: Avon River, also common on the Genoa River, F. Mueller s.n. (MEL 77795); isosyn: BM, MEL 77800, NSW. Syn: Ranges on the McAllister River, F. Mueller s.n. (K); isosyn: MEL 77797, W. Two further syntypes appear to be intermediate between D. buxifolia and D. mimosoides. These are: K.G. Sound, Baxter s.n. (K) (locality apparently mistaken) and Avon River, F. Mueller s.n. (MEL 79004)."

Crisp, M.D. (1995) Contributions Toward a Revision of Daviesia (Fabaceae: Mirbelieae). III. A Synopsis of the Genus. Australian Systematic Botany 8(6): 1179
Nomenclatural Synonyms:

Daviesia latifolia var. buxifolia (Benth.) C.Moore & Betche ;  Moore, C. & Betche, E. in Moore, C. & Betche, E. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales: 133
taxonomic Synonyms:

Daviesia latifolia var. parvifolia Benth. ;  Bentham, G. (1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 76