Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Synostemon cowiei
Phyllanthaceae Martinov
Synostemon cowiei I.Telford & J.J.Bruhl , legitimate, scientific
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 32(2,3): 153-154, Fig. 4 (map) APC [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Northern Territory: Kakadu National Park, 14 km E of Sleisbeck, 18 Apr. 1990, G.J.Leach 2759 & I.D.Cowie (holo: DNA D47702; iso: BRI AQ462683, MEL 1582860)."
  • APC Dist.: NT
  • Etymology: "The specific epithet honours Ian Cowie, Chief Botanist of the Northern Territory Herbarium, whose collections and observations of Phyllanthaceae in the Top End have contributed greatly to the present study."

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