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 Euphorbia prostrata

Euphorbiaceae Juss.

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

Euphorbia prostrata Aiton

, legitimate

, scientific

Aiton, W. (1789), Hortus Kewensis 2

:

139

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Nat. of West Indies. Cult. 1758, by Mr. Philip Miller."

Small, J.K. (22 July 1903), Flora of the Southeastern United States

:

713

[basionym]

basionym of:

Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small

legitimate

Blakely, W.F. (1 April 1923), Weeds of New South Wales.

Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales

:

286

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small

legitimate

Anderson, R.H. (8 August 1939), The naturalised flora of New South Wales (excluding Gramineae).

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium

:

25

[secondary reference]

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

:

210

[secondary reference]

common name:

Red Caustic Creeper

[n/a]

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

:

412, 414, Fig. 65F

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small

legitimate

common name:

Red Caustic-creeper

[n/a]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales.

Plant Protection Quarterly

:

139

[secondary reference]

common name:

Red caustic creeper

[n/a]

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

Flora of New South Wales

:

428

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small

legitimate

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

Flora of Australia

:

277-278, Fig. 45E-F

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small

legitimate

misapplication: Euphorbia thymifolia L. legitimate by

Ridley, H.N. (1906), The botany of Christmas Island.

Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

45

: 222

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

237

[secondary reference]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Atoll Research Bulletin

:

23

[secondary reference]

Thomson, B.G. in Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Euphorbia.

Flora of the Darwin Region

:

216

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Euphorbia chamaesyce L.

legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia

:

101

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Euphorbia chamaesyce L.

legitimate

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

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

:

428

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small

legitimate

Jessup, L.W. (2003), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 1 Changes to names or status of taxa

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small

legitimate

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small

legitimate

APC Comment: Treated as Chamaesyce prostrata in Qld and NSW.
APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised)

Halford, D.A. & Harris, W.K. (21 December 2012), A taxonomic revision of Euphorbia section Anisophyllum Roeper (Euphorbiaceae) in Australia.

Austrobaileya

:

548-550, Fig. 27N, Map 44

[secondary reference]

Type: "cultivated at Kew, origin in the West Indies, in 1758, P. Miller s.n. (holo: BM 510671, n.v.)."

nomenclatural synonym:

Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small

legitimate

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised)