Breynia retroversa (Wight) Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. (2012:121)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Sauropus retroversus Wight in Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 6: 6, t. 1951 (1853); Aalius retroversa (Wight) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 591 (1891); Phyllanthus retroversus (Wight) Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr. in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 33: 715 (2009)
Conservation Status
Missing (MOE, 2012:305; Wijesundara et al., 2020:109) or Rediscovered [by implication] (POWO, 2024) or Invalid (synonym of B. androgyna) (van Welzen et al., 2014:91)
Distribution & Habitat
Sri Lanka
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
IUCN Sri Lanka and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. (2007). The 2007 Red List of Threatened Fauna and Flora of Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka. xiii + 148 pp.
MOE (Ministry of Environment). (2012). The National Red List 2012 of Sri Lanka; Conservation Status of the Fauna and Flora. Ministry of Environment, Colombo, Sri Lanka. viii + 476 pp.
POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 7 July 2024]
van Welzen, P. C., Pruesapan, K., Telford, I. R. H., Esser, H.-J. and Bruhl, J. J. (2014). Phylogenetic reconstruction prompts taxonomic changes in Sauropus, Synostemon and Breynia (Phyllanthaceae tribe Phyllantheae). Blumea 59: 77-94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3767/000651914X684484
Wijesundara, Siril, Ranasinghe, Subhani, Jayasinghe, Himesh, Gunawardena, Nadeeka, Fonseka, Gayani and Wijesooriya, Shivanthi. (2020). Angiosperms in Sri Lanka: Present status of Angiosperms in Sri Lanka, pp. 1-168. In: The National Red List 2020 - Conservation Status of the Flora of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka: Biodiversity Secretariat, Ministry of Environment and the National Herbarium, Department of National Botanic Gardens. xviii + 254 pp.