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 Croton

Euphorbiaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Malpighiales(ordo)
Euphorbiaceae(fam.)
Croton(gen.)

, legitimate

, scientific

Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2

:

1004

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5

:

436

[secondary reference]

Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1806), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 2(22)

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72

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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20

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

36

BHL

[secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

:

60-61

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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478

[secondary reference]

Small, J.K. in Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), Euphorbiaceae.

An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions

:

454

BHL

[secondary reference]

Type: Croton tiglium L.

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

:

214

[secondary reference]

Airy Shaw, H.K. (1976), New or noteworthy Euphorbiaceae.

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388-389

[secondary reference]

Airy Shaw, H.K. (November 1980), A partial synopsis of the Euphorbiaceae - Platylobeae of Australia (excluding Phyllanthus, Euphorbia and Calycopeplus).

:

614-624

[secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants

:

736, 738, 739

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

116

[secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

420-421

[secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

419-420

[secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

:

309

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Oxydectes Kuntze

legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

597

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Australia

:

266-267

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Flora of the Darwin Region 2

:

210-212

[secondary reference]

James, T.A. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

419

[secondary reference]

Forster, P.I. (3 December 2003), A taxonomic revision of Croton L. (Euphorbiaceae) in Australia.

Austrobaileya

:

354-355

[secondary reference]

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

:

179-180

[secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

:

230

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Eremocarpus Benth.

legitimate

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Eremocarpus Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Oxydectes Kuntze

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT, SA (naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), Vic (naturalised)