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 Hypoestes phyllostachya

Acanthaceae Juss.

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

Hypoestes phyllostachya Baker

, legitimate

, scientific

Baker, J.G. (1887), Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 22

:

511

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Baron 4907! Also Hildebrandt 3444!"

Anonymous (1986), Annual Report for 1985/86.

Annual Report of the Botany Branch and the Queensland Herbarium

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26

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Australia

:

343

[secondary reference]

common name:

Polka-Dot Plant

[n/a]

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 3337

[secondary reference]

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

:

10-11

[secondary reference]

common name:

Freckle-face

[n/a]

common name:

Pink-dot

[n/a]

common name:

Baby's Tears

[n/a]

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

APC Comment: Treated as "Freckle Face Hypoestes" by R.M.Barker, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 17: 148 (1996).
APC Dist.: Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised)

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

Census of the Queensland Flora 2010

:

5

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Hypoestes sanguinolenta Hook.

legitimate

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

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