Aristolochia elegans Mast.

First published in Gard. Chron., n.s., 24: 301, t. 61 (1885)
This name is a synonym of Aristolochia littoralis

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:

  • Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. [Cited as Aristolochia littoralis.]
  • George, A.S., Orchard, A.E. & Hewson, H.J. (eds.) (1993). Oceanic islands 2. Flora of Australia 50: 1-606. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. [Cited as Aristolochia littoralis.]
  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Aristolochia littoralis.]
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. [Cited as Aristolochia littoralis.]
  • Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118. [Cited as Aristolochia littoralis.]
  • Sykes, W.R. (2016). Flora of the Cook Islands: 1-973. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii. [Cited as Aristolochia littoralis.]
  • Wagner, W.L., Herbst, D.R. & Sohmer, S.H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, rev. ed., 1: 1-988. University of Hawai'i Press, Bishop Museum Press. [Cited as Aristolochia littoralis.]

This name was accepted following an alternative taxonomy by these authorities:

  • Bosser, J., Cadet, T., Guého, J. & Marais, W. (eds.) (1998). Flore des Mascareignes 149-152: 1. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris. [Cited as Aristolochia elegans.]

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Ahumada, Fl. Ilustr. Catarinense, Aristoloquiaceas: 10, t. 3 (1975).
  • Backer & Bakh. f., Fl. Java 1:164 (1963).
  • Bailey, Stand. Cyclop. Hort. 1: 394 (1939).
  • Bak. & Wright in Flora of Tropical Africa 6(1): 138 (1909).
  • Cufod., Enumeratio Plantarum Aethiopiae Spermatophyta (Supplement in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux.) p. 36 (1953).
  • Hoehne, Fl. Brasilica 15(2): 47, t. 10 (1942).
  • Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. 112, t. 6909 (1886).
  • Jex-Blake, Gard. E. Afr., ed. 4: 131 (1957).
  • Keay, Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 81 (1954).
  • Mast. in Gard. Chron. 24: 301, fig. 64 (1885).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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