Acalypha filiformis Poir., Encycl. 6(1): 205. 1804.

Munoz, Iris Montero, Cardiel, Jose Maria & Levin, Geoffrey A., 2018, Nomenclatural review of Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae) of the Western Indian Ocean Region (Madagascar, the Comoros Archipelago, the Mascarene Islands and the Seychelles Archipelago), PhytoKeys 108, pp. 85-116 : 85

10. Acalypha filiformis Poir., Encycl. 6(1): 205. 1804.

Type.

Mauritius, “Île de France", s.d., P. Commerson s.n. (lectotype, designated here: P [P05604464]!; isolectotypes: MPU [MPU014933]!, P [P05604471]!).

Acalypha filiformis var. arborea Poir., Encycl. 6(1): 205. 1804. Acalypha reticulata var. arborea (Poir.) Müll.Arg. Linnaea 34: 32. 1865. Type: Reunion, "Elle croît a l’île Bourbon", 1774, P. Commerson s.n. (holotype: P [P05604473]!; isotype: MPU [MPU014949]!).

Tragia reticulata Poir., Encycl. 7: 725. 1806. Acalypha reticulata (Poir.) Müll.Arg., Prodr. 15(2): 851. 1866. Type: Reunion: “l`Ile -de-Bourbon", s.d., P. Commerson s.n. (holotype: P-LAM [P00382118]!; isotype P [P05604477]!).

Acalypha arborea Commers. in Poir., Encycl. 6: 205. 1804 nom. nud.

Acalypha lantanaefolia Bojer, Hortus Maurit. 286. 1837 nom. nud.

Distribution.

Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Réunion).

References.

Bojer (1837: 286); Baillon (1858: 443) as Tragia reticulata ; Baillon (1861: 266) as A. arborea ; Müller Argoviensis (1866: 851) as A. reticulata ; Baker (1877: 316) as A. reticulata ; Müller Argoviensis (1882: 26) as A. reticulata ; Pax (1890: 61) as A. reticulata ; Pax (1894: 96) as A. reticulata ; de Cordemoy (1895: 342) as A. reticulata ; Voeltzkow (1917: 447) as A. arborea ; Pax and Hoffmann (1924: 102) as A. reticulata ; Leandri (1942: 258) as A. reticulata ; Coode (1979: 45) as A. reticulata ; Coode (1982: 69, 76); Govaerts et al. (2000: 62, 99, 105); Seebaluck et al. (2015: 150).

Notes.

Acalypha reticulata has been usually considered as the accepted name of this species. Leandri (1942) noticed that A. filiformis and A. reticulata are conspecific, but he kept A. reticulata as the accepted name. Applying the rule of priority, the accepted name must be A. filiformis and A. reticulata should be placed as a synonym.