World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Funkia caerulea (Andrews) Sweet, Hort. Brit.: 409 (1826).

This name is a synonym.

Homotypic Names:
Accepted Name:	Hosta ventricosa Stearn, Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 90: 27 (1931).
Family:	Asparagaceae
* Hemerocallis caerulea Andrews, Bot. Repos. 1: t. 6 (1797). Saussurea caerulea (Andrews) Salisb., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 8: 11 (1807). Bryocles ventricosa Salisb., Trans. Hort. Soc. London 1: 335 (1812), genus not validly publ. Hosta caerulea (Andrews) Tratt., Arch. Gew�chsk. Leopold Trattinick 2(4): 11 (1814), nom. illeg., non Jacq. Libertia recta Dumort., Comment. Bot.: 11 (1822), nom. superfl. Funkia ovata Spreng., Syst. Veg. 2: 40 (1825), nom. illeg. Hosta japonica var. caerulea (Andrews) Asch., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 21: 53 (1863). Funkia ovata var. caerulea (Andrews) Miq., Verslagen Meded. Afd. Natuurk. Kon. Akad. Wetensch., ser. 2, 3: 299 (1869). Niobe caerulea (Andrews) Nash, Torreya 11: 7 (1911). Hosta ventricosa Stearn, Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 90: 27 (1931). * Basionym/Replaced Synonym
Original Compiler:	R.Govaerts