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Cycas scratchleyana F.Muell. [WFO] [IPNI] [POWO] [MO]

First published in: Vict. Naturalist 2(2): 18-19. (1885). [BHL]

Etymology: Honoring Sir Peter Henry Scratchley (1835–1885), English military engineer, colonial administrator, and former Special Commissioner for the Territory of New Guinea. [source]

Nomenclatural Type Information
Type Location(s): HT:MEL
Nomenclature notes: Later listed by F. Mueller in Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants 2(6): 15. 1885

Nomenclatural Synonyms:

Distribution: Australia (Queensland [Murray Island]), Indonesia (Maluku, Maluku Utara, Papua, Papua Barat), Papua New Guinea (Central, Gulf, Milne Bay, Western)

IUCN Red List Conservation Status: Near Threatened

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Reference Links (7)

Calculated Reference Reference Links Journal Comment(s)
2005
Forster PI. 2005. Cycas scratchleyana F.Muell. (Cycadaceae), a new species record for Queensland and Australia. Austrobaileya 7 (1) : 229-230.
Austrobaileya
2009
Lindström AJ, Hill KD, Stanberg L. 2009. The genus Cycas (Cycadaceae) in Indonesia. Telopea 12 (3): 385-418.
Telopea
Description
1998
de Laubenfels DJ, Adema F. 1998. A taxonomic revision of the genera Cycas and Epicycas gen. nov. (Cycadaceae). Blumea 43 (2): 351-400.
Blumea - Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants
Description
2011
Osborne R. 2011. Focus on Cycas scratchleyana F.Muell.. Encephalartos 103 : 9-13.
Encephalartos
1994
Hill KD. 1994. The Cycas rumphii complex (Cycadaceae) in New Guinea and the western Pacific. Austral. Syst. Bot. 7 (6) : 543-567.
Australian Systematic Botany
Description
1885
Mueller FJ. 1885. Succinct notes on some plants from New Guinea. Vict. Naturalist 2 (2) : 18-20.
Victorian Naturalist; Journal and Magazine of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria
Protologue description
2022
Haynes JL. 2022. Etymological compendium of cycad names. Phytotaxa 550 (1) : 1-31.
Phytotaxa