Talk:Pandorea pandorana

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Did you know... that Pandorea "Golden Showers" is a yellow-flowering variety of the Australian native plant the Wonga Wonga Vine?

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Used for making spears?[edit]

A paper by Cleland and Tindale describes Tecoma doratoxylon as being used for making spears.^[1] It seems unlikely that this is a possible use of Pandorea pandorana, by "people of the Central and Western Deserts", since P. pandorana does not grow in deserts and since PlantNET describes it as growing in "coastal rainforest or as a scrambler or climber in moist gullies in sclerophyll forest and woodland, frequently in rocky sites.^[2]

According to the Australian Plant Census, Tecoma doratoxylon is a synonym of Pandorea doratoxylon and "Flora NT" gives P. doratoxylon as having the common name "spearwood", its uses including "weapons and implements, spears" and its distribution as being widespread in the southern part of the Northern Territory.^[3] Seems more likely that Cleland and Tindale were referring to P. doratoxylon.

I propose to move the reference to spear-making from this article to the article about P. doratoxylon, but hope to the get a second opinion from "watchers" of this page. Gderrin (talk) 10:59, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is compounded by the lack of agreement between the national and state herbaria. The Australian Plant Census accepts Pandorea doratoxylon,^[4] and that name is accepted in the Northern Territory,^[3] but not by the Western Australian Herbarium (=P. pandorana)^[5], the National Herbarium of New South Wales (=P. pandorana subsp. pandorana),^[2] nor by the State Herbarium of South Australia (= P. pandorana).^[6] Pandorea doratoxylon is also accepted by Plants of the World Online who give its distribution as "eastern Australia"!^[7]

References

^ Cleland, John B.; Tindale, Norman B. (1959). "The native names and uses of plants at Haast Bluff, Central Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 82: 139. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b Quirico, Anna-Louise. "Pandorea pandorana". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 21 October 2021. Cite error: The named reference "RBGS" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b "Pandorea doratoxylon". Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
^ "Pandorea doratoxylon". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
^ "Pandorea doratoxylon". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
^ "Pandorea pandorana". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
^ "Pandorea doratoxylon". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 21 October 2021.

[RSSA-1] Cleland, John B.; Tindale, Norman B. (1959). "The native names and uses of plants at Haast Bluff, Central Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 82: 139. Retrieved 21 October 2021.

[RBGS-2] Quirico, Anna-Louise. "Pandorea pandorana". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 21 October 2021. Cite error: The named reference "RBGS" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

[efloraNT-3] "Pandorea doratoxylon". Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 21 October 2021.

[APC-4] "Pandorea doratoxylon". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 12 October 2021.

[FloraBase-5] "Pandorea doratoxylon". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

[efloraSA-6] "Pandorea pandorana". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 21 October 2021.

[POWO-7] "Pandorea doratoxylon". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 21 October 2021.

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