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 Acalypha lanceolata

Euphorbiaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Malpighiales(ordo)
Euphorbiaceae(fam.)
Acalypha(gen.)
lanceolata(sp.)

Acalypha lanceolata Willd.

, legitimate

, scientific

Willdenow, C.L. (1805), Species Plantarum Edn. 4, 4(1)

:

524

[tax. nov.]

Type: J.Burman, Thes. Zeylan.: 205 (1737) t.93,fig.2

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2

:

617

[basionym]

basionym of:

Ricinocarpos lanceolatus (Willd.) Kuntze

legitimate

Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1990), New records of Acalypha in Australia. Notes on Australian Euphorbiaceae I.

:

-

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

591

[secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

271, Fig. 44H-J

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Acalypha wightiana Müll.Arg.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Acalypha fallax Müll.Arg.

legitimate

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Atoll Research Bulletin

:

22

[secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. (1 September 1994), A taxonomic revision of Acalypha L (Euphorbiaceae) in Australia.

Austrobaileya

:

217, fig. 3G-J, map 1

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Acalypha indica var. australis F.M.Bailey

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Ricinocarpus lanceolatus Kuntze

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Ricinocarpos lanceolatus (Willd.) Kuntze

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Acalypha wightiana Müll.Arg.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Acalypha fallax Müll.Arg.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Acalypha indica var. australis F.M.Bailey

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT, Qld