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 Asystasia gangetica

Acanthaceae Juss.

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

Asystasia gangetica (L.) T.Anderson

, legitimate

, scientific

Anderson, T. in Thwaites, G.H.K. (1860), Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae

:

235

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Justicia gangetica L.

legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

151

[secondary reference]

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

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

:

134-136

[secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Acanthaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

385

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Justicia gangetica L.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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

Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens

:

146

[secondary reference]

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Justicia gangetica L.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Asystasia gangetica (L.) T.Anderson subsp. gangetica

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Asystasia coromandeliana Nees

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Asystasia coromandeliana var. micrantha Nees

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Asystasia gangetica subsp. micrantha (Nees) Ensermu

legitimate

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Justicia gangetica L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Asystasia coromandeliana Nees

legitimate

APC Comment: Infraspecific rank not recognised in NSW.
APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)