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 Stephanophysum longifolium

Acanthaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Asteranae(superordo)
Lamiales(ordo)
Acanthaceae(fam.)
Stephanophysum(gen.)
longifolium(sp.)

Stephanophysum longifolium Pohl

, legitimate

, scientific

Pohl, J.B.E. (1831), Plantarum Brasiliae Icones et Descriptiones 2

:

85, t. 156

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in umbrosis, inter frutices, ad Rio Pirrahi Capstaniae Rio de Janeiro, et in Serra de Chumbo Capitaniae Minas Geraës. Legi mense Martio 1818 et Juli. 1821."

Grisebach, A.H.R. (1879), Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen 24

:

260

[basionym]

basionym of:

Ruellia longifolia (Pohl) Griseb. ex Lindau

nom. illeg.

Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

:

80

[secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. (29 August 1996), Additional species, new combinations and other notes on Acanthaceae of Australia.

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

:

141

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B., Elick, R.W. & Ford, A.J. (1999), Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs.

Australian tropical rain forest trees and shrubs

:

54

[secondary reference]

Hyland, B.P.M., Whiffin, T.P., Christophel, D.C., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. (2003), Australian tropical rain forest plants. Trees, Shrubs and Vines

:

Code 3530

[secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

:

12

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ruellia graecizans Backer

legitimate

common name:

Red Christmas Pride

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ruellia longifolia (Pohl) Griseb. ex Lindau

nom. illeg.

taxonomic synonym:

Stephanophysum brevifolium Pohl

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ruellia graecizans Backer

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ruellia brevifolia (Pohl) C. Ezcurra

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Bean, A.R. in Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (ed.) (8 December 2010), Acanthaceae.

Census of the Queensland Flora 2010

:

6

[secondary reference]