Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Vitex rotundifolia

Lamiaceae Martinov

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Lamiales(ordo)
Lamiaceae(fam.)
Vitex(gen.)
rotundifolia(sp.)

Vitex rotundifolia L.f.

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. [filius] (April 1782), Supplementum Plantarum

:

294

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in Iaponia. Thunberg."

Moldenke, H.N. (1961), Additional notes on the genus Vitex. II.

:

86

[secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

:

256

BHL

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

80

[secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1987), Native Plants of Queensland 3

:

316

[secondary reference]

Munir, A.A. (13 March 1987), A taxonomic revision of the genus Vitex L. (Verbenaceae) in Australia.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

:

52-58, Fig. 5, Map 4

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex ovata Thunb.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia var. simplicifolia Cham.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex repens Blanco

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia var. unifoliolata Schauer

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia var. unifoliata Miq.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia var. obovata Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia var. ovata (Thunb.) Makino

nom. superfl.

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia var. repens Ridl.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia subsp. litoralis Steenis

legitimate

misapplication: Vitex trifolia L. legitimate by

Miquel, F.A.W. (1858), Flora van Nederlandsch Indie 2(5)

: 859

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5

:

12

[secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Verbenaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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794, Fig. 242F

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List.

Fruits of the Rainforest

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313

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs.

Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs

:

91

[secondary reference]

Jessup, L.W. (22 April 2002), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 2 Changes to names or status of taxa

:

-

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia var. simplicifolia Cham.

legitimate

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

:

241

[secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5

:

-

[secondary reference]

de Kok, R.P.J. (2007), The genus Vitex L. (Lamiaceae) in New Guinea and the South Pacific Islands.

:

599

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Vitex trifolia subsp. litoralis Steenis

legitimate

de Kok, R.P.J., Sengun S. & Bramley, G.L.C. (November 2016), Two new records for the Lamiaceae of Singapore.

The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore

:

195-196, 198, Fig. 2

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex ovata Thunb.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia var. obovata Benth.

legitimate

Sengun, S., Ingrouille, M., Paton, A. & de Kok, R.P.J. (1 October 2024), Taxonomic revision of the Vitex trifolia complex (Lamiaceae).

:

113-115, Figs 14-15, Map 8

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "(designated here): Thunberg s.n. (Hb. Thunb. 14619) (lecto UPS-THUNB*; isolecto LINN-SM), Japan."

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex ovata Thunb.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia var. simplicifolia Cham.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex repens Blanco

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia var. unifoliolata Schauer

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia var. obovata Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia var. ovata (Thunb.) Makino

nom. superfl.

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia var. repens Ridl.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vitex trifolia subsp. litoralis Steenis

legitimate

Vernacular: "Beach Vitex (English); Dĕmunla, Gunong pantai, Lagundi, Lagundi Laud (Malay); Hamago (Japanese); Wora tach (local language in Western Flores, Indonesia)."

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