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 Chamaesyce hirta

Euphorbiaceae Juss.

Chamaesyce hirta (L.) Millsp.

, legitimate

, scientific

Millspaugh, C.F. (6 August 1909), Praenunciae Bahamenses—II. Contributions to a flora of the Bahamian archipelago.

Publications of the Field Columbian Museum, Botanical Series

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303

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Euphorbia hirta L.

legitimate

Hassall, D.C. (1976), Numerical and cytotaxonomic evidence for generic delimitation in Australian Euphorbieae.

Australian Journal of Botany

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640

[secondary reference]

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

:

116

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Euphorbia hirta L.

legitimate

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

413

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Euphorbia hirta L.

legitimate

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

Flora of New South Wales

:

429

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Euphorbia hirta L.

legitimate

common name:

Asthma Plant

[n/a]

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

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

605

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Euphorbia hirta L.

legitimate

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

Flora of Australia

:

277

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Euphorbia hirta L.

legitimate

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

Flora of the Darwin Region

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217

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Euphorbia hirta L.

legitimate

Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. in Harden, G.J. & Murray, L.J. (ed.) (2000), Flora of New South Wales Supplement 1

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60

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

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429

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Euphorbia hirta L.

legitimate

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

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-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Euphorbia hirta L.

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Euphorbia hirta L.

legitimate

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

Austrobaileya

:

497

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Euphorbia hirta L.

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Euphorbia hirta L.

legitimate