Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Alyxia stellata
Apocynaceae Juss.
Alyxia stellata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Roem. & Schult. , legitimate, scientific
Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1819), Systema Vegetabilium 4: 439-440 BHL [comb. nov.]
basionym: Gynopogon stellatus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate
Middleton, D.J. (2002), Revision of Alyxia (Apocynaceae). Part 2: Pacific Islands and Australia. Blumea 47(1): 56-65, Fig. 4, Map 28 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Alyxia obtusifolia R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Alyxia thozetii F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pulassarium thozetii (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pulassarium obtusifolium (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Gynopogon stellatus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Pulassarium stellatum (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Alyxia obtusifolia R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gynopogon obtusifolius (R.Br.) Poir. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Alyxia thozetii F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pulassarium thozetii (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pulassarium obtusifolium (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate
  • APC Comment: P.I.Forster, Fl. Australia 28: 133 (1996) identified A. thozetii as Alyxia stellata var. amoena (A.C.Sm.) A.C.Sm., native to Fiji, and suggested it was a fleeting garden escape in Qld. Middleton (2002) included this taxon in a very broad A. stellata. Both Forster, Austral. Syst. Bot. 5(5): 570-571 (1992) and Middleton, Blumea 45(1) (2000) synonymised A. obtusifolia under A. spicata, but it was moved to A. stellata by Middleton (2002). For a full synonymy and discussion of nomenclature of A. stellata see Middleton (2002).
  • APC Dist.: Qld