Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Phyllanthus amarus
Phyllanthaceae Martinov
Phyllanthus amarus Schumach. , legitimate, scientific
Schumacher, H.C.F. & Thonning, P. (1827), Beskrivelse af Guineiske Planter: 421-423 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Comment: Authorship of this name follows GRIN (http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?401814). The name and diagnosis together are ascribed to Schumacher, although the description is ascribed to Thonning (see ICN Art. 46, Ex. 9, 12, & 22, Melbourne Code 2012).
Schumacher, H.C.F. & Thonning, P. (1829), Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs. Naturvidenskabelige og mathematiske afhandlinger 4: 195-196 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 31 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 10 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 620, Fig. 190A, 191A [secondary reference]
Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Euphorbiaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 264-265, Fig. 44D-E [secondary reference]
misapplication: Phyllanthus niruri L. legitimate by Rendle, A.B. in Andrews, C.W. (1900), Apetalae. A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): 187 common name: Dukong Anak [n/a]
Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 23 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 230, Fig. 75 [secondary reference]
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 105 [secondary reference]
common name: Poinciana Weed [n/a]
Hunter, J.T. & Bruhl, J.J. (8 July 1997), Two new species of Phyllanthus and notes on Phyllanthus and Sauropus (Euphorbiaceae: Phyllantheae) in New South Wales. Telopea 7(2): 150, Fig. 1 [secondary reference]
Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1: 57 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
misapplication: Phyllanthus niruri L. legitimate by Rendle, A.B. in Andrews, C.W. (1900), Apetalae. A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): 187
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)
Bouman, R.W., Keßler, P.J.A., Telford, I.R.H., Bruhl, J.J., Strijk, J.S., Saunders, R.M.K., Esser, H.-J., Falcón-Hidalgo, B. & van Welzen, P.C. (18 March 2022), A revised phylogenetic classification of tribe Phyllantheae (Phyllanthaceae). Phytotaxa 540(1): 30 [basionym]
basionym of: Moeroris amara (Schumach.) R.W.Bouman legitimate
Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (21 March 2023), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2022. Nuytsia 34: 15 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Moeroris amara (Schumach.) R.W.Bouman legitimate