Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Aizoaceae
Genus
Tetragonia L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 84 (1864)
Synonymy:
Type collections: ‘Northern Island: east coast, Banks and Solander. Sand-hills, Cape Turnagain, Colenso. Auckland, Sinclair.’ Lectotype (fide Green 1994 as holotype): New Zealand, 1769–1770, J. Banks & D. Solander s.n., BM 000906651 (https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/61e35236-5044-493f-befd-5f05e8bfd8f6). Syntypes: New Zealand, 1769–1770, J. Banks & D. Solander s.n., AK100182, WELT SP063686
  • = Tetragonia expansa var. strongylocarpa Endl., Prodr. Fl. Norfolk. 73 (1833)
  • ≡ Tetragonia strongylocarpa (Endl.) W.R.B.Oliv., Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 49: 137 (1917)
Type collection: ‘Crescit in insula Norfolk, mense Octobri florens et fructifera (Ferd. Bauer.)’. Neotype: Norfolk Island, January-February 1912, R. M. Laing s.n., CHR 335880.
  • = Tetragonia implexicoma var. chathamica F.Muell., Veg. Chatham Isl. 12 (1864)
Type collection: ‘In damp crevices of rocks on the sea-coast of Chatham-Island.’ Lectotype: Chatham Island, rocky damp crevices, sea coast, February, H. H. Travers No. 6, MEL 2445616A. Syntypes: no date, H. H. Travers s.n., MEL 2445618A; no date, H. H. Travers s.n., MEL 2445617A; no date, Henry Travers s.n., WELT SP033883; no date, Henry Travers s.n., WELT SP050404; no date, Henry Travers s.n., WELT SP038824.
 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Cameron, E.K. 1999: The vascular flora of Aorangi Island, Poor Knights Islands, northern New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37: 433–468.
Endlicher, S.F.L. 1833: Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae. Beck, Wien.
Green, P.S. 1994: Aizoaceae. In: Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) Flora of Australia. Vol. 49. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. 76–79.
Heenan, P.B. 2022: Taxonomy with an absence of evidence results in unnecessary nomenclatural change: the case of Tetragonia trigyna Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f. (Aizoaceae) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 60(2): 169–138. (Published online: 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2021.1955715))
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Mueller, F.J.H. 1864: The vegetation of the Chatham Islands. Government Printer, Melbourne.
Oliver, W. R. B. 1917: The Vegetation and Flora of Lord Howe Island. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 49: 94–161.