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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The query is not case sensitive.
This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Sauropus torridus

Phyllanthaceae Martinov

Sauropus torridus J.T.Hunter & J.J.Bruhl

, legitimate

, scientific

Hunter, J.T. & Bruhl, J.J. (10 March 1997), New Sauropus (Euphorbiaceae: Phyllantheae) taxa for the Northern Territory and Western Australia and notes on other Sauropus occurring in these regions.

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178, fig. 1D-E

[tax. nov.]

Type: Mitchell Plateau, N of Mining Camp top of plateau, Western Australia, 18 June 1976, K.F. Kenneally 5092 (holo: PERTH: PERTH01640771).

taxonomic synonym:

Phyllanthus sp. B

[n/a]

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

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-

[secondary reference]

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Phyllanthus sp. B

[n/a]

misapplication: Sauropus ochrophyllus (Benth.) Airy Shaw legitimate by

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

: 108

APC Dist.: WA, NT

Barrett, R.L. & Telford, I.R.H. (3 November 2015), Two new species of Phyllanthus from northern Australia and notes on Phyllanthus, Sauropus and Synostemon (Phyllanthaceae) in Western Australia.

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164

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Synostemon glaucus F.Muell.

legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (31 March 2016), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2015.

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15

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Synostemon glaucus F.Muell.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Synostemon glaucus F.Muell.

legitimate

Telford, I.R.H., Pruesapan, K., Welzen, P.C. van & Bruhl, J.J. (4 June 2019), Morphological and molecular data show an enlarged tropical Australian radiation in Synostemon (Phyllanthaceae, Phyllantheae) previously concealed by heteromorphic species concepts.

Australian Systematic Botany

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162

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Synostemon glaucus F.Muell.

legitimate