Actephila mooreana

Actephila mooreana Baill. (1866) . 
(In Au: synonym since ca. 2017: Actephila lindleyi (Steud.) Airy Shaw (1971) .) 

Harden et al (2024) Rainforest Plants of Au : Rockhampton to Victoria, quotation: "

Habitat and Distribution:

In subtropical rain forest and dry rain forest; 
chiefly north from near Kiama (S of Wollongong), also recorded from the Shoalhaven Gorge (W of Nowra), N.S.W., to slightly north of Townsville, N Qld. 

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Botanical Scholarly Literature References:  

• Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and Australian Plant Census (APC) (2025):
Council of the Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH):
Actephila mooreana Baill. (1866): → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/74756/api/apni-format .
In Au: synonym since ca. 2017: Actephila lindleyi (Steud.) Airy Shaw (1971): → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/74741/api/apni-format .
Actephila ...: → https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/search/names?product=APNI&tree.id=&name=Actephila&inc._scientific=&inc.scientific=on&max=100&display=&search=true
Viewed: 2025 September 15th .

• Harden Gwen, Hugh Nicholson, Bill McDonald, Nan Nicholson, Terry Tame and John Williams (2024) [2014]
Rainforest Plants of Au : Rockhampton to Victoria, information system and botanical matrix identification key - edition 2
Actephila mooreana (Synonym: Actephila lindleyi) .

Mobile devices (phones and tablets) app.: 
→ https://rainforests.net.au/product/rainforest-plants-of-australia-mobile-app/
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Computer (desktops and laptops) software: 
→ https://rainforests.net.au/product/rainforest-plants-of-australia-desktop-app/  
→ https://rainforestpublishing.com.au/publications/
Viewed: 2025 September 15th .

• Forster Paul I, Queensland Herbarium (2025) 
Census of the Queensland Flora and Fungi 2024.
Actephila mooreana Baill. – "Nature Conservation Act (NCA) Status : Least Concern" .
Queensland Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government.
→ http://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/census-of-the-queensland-flora-and-fungi-2024
Dataset Accessed: 2025 July 19th . 

• Heijkoop M and P C van Welzen (2017) 
A revision of the genus Actephila (Phyllanthaceae) in the Malesian region. 
Blumea 62 : 7–25 .
→ https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/623378/BLUM2017062001004.pdf 
Quotations: " 

Actephila mooreana Baill. (‘mooriana’) was formerly synonymized with A. lindleyi, but is distinct.
It occurs exclusively in Australia, where A. lindleyi is in fact absent (a description of A. mooreana can be found under A. lindleyi in the revision by Forster 2005).

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Actephila mooreana is to be recognized as an accepted species and not a synonym of A. lindleyi.
The latter species does not occur in Australia and differs in the characters leaf apex, leaf size, leaf margin, size of the disc, and pistillode.
Leaf blades of A. mooreana are up to 17 cm long (often below 10 cm), with an acute to rounded apex and a wavy margin.
The pistillode in the staminate flowers of A. mooreana is hairy.
The disc in A. mooreana is wide and fleshy in staminate and pistillate flowers, pushing the sepals backwards in fruit.
Fruits of A. mooreana are up to 1.3 cm diam.
Actephila mooriana, the original spelling by Baillon (1866) was incorrect.

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• Forster Paul I (2005 December 21) 
A taxonomic revision of Actephila Blume (Euphorbiaceae/Phyllanthaceae) in Australia.
Austrobaileya 7(1) : 57–98 .
→ https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41739011.pdf 
Viewed: 2025 September 16th .

• Flora of NSW online PlantNet:
PlantNET (The NSW Plant Information Network System).
As synonym in Au since ca. 2017 Actephila lindleyi (Steud.) Airy Shaw: → https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Actephila~lindleyi 
Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney.
Viewed: 2025 September 16th .

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