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 Phyllanthus acidus

Phyllanthaceae Martinov

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Malpighiales(ordo)
Phyllanthaceae(fam.)
Phyllanthus(gen.)
acidus(sp.)

Phyllanthus acidus (L.) Skeels

, legitimate

, scientific

Skeels, H.C. (1909), United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Bulletin 148

:

17

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Averrhoa acida L.

legitimate

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

Flora of Australia

:

265

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Averrhoa acida L.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Cicca acida (L.) Merr.

legitimate

common name:

Otaheite Gooseberry

[n/a]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Averrhoa acida L.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Cicca acida (L.) Merr.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cicca disticha L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Phyllanthus distichus (L.) Müll.Arg.

nom. illeg.

taxonomic synonym:

Phyllanthus disticha M.B.Thomas & W.J.McDonald

orth. var.

APC Dist.: ChI (naturalised), Qld (formerly naturalised)

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (3 October 2014), Appendix A. Name and status changes 2013 census to 2014 census.

Census of the Queensland Flora

:

26

[secondary reference]

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2017), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2016 census to 2017 census.

Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2017

:

24

[secondary reference]

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).

:

51

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cicca acida (L.) Merr.

legitimate