Alyxia ruscifoliaR.Br.

WFO wfo-0000956222 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Alyxia ruscifolia, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. a Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205070988
Alyxia ruscifolia, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. b Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205107242
Alyxia ruscifolia, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 194893555
Alyxia ruscifolia, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. d Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 192140496
Alyxia ruscifolia, photographed by ronavery
fig. e ronavery, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191007859
Alyxia ruscifolia, photographed by ronavery
fig. f ronavery, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191228034
Alyxia ruscifolia, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. g Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186690422
Alyxia ruscifolia, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. h Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 186634231

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Alyxia ruscifolia is native: New South Wales, Norfolk Is., Northern Territory, Queensland New South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueensland Norfolk Is.
Native distribution of Alyxia ruscifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Norfolk Is. NFK
Northern Territory NTA
Queensland QLD

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 61 in flower of 291 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Alyxia ruscifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 61 of 291 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alyxia pugioniformis A.Cunn.
  • Alyxia richardsonii Sweet
  • Alyxia ruscifolia var. pugioniformis G.Don
  • Alyxia ruscifolia var. ulicina F.M.Bailey
  • Alyxia sharpei P.I.Forst.
  • Gynopogon pugioniformis A.Cunn. ex Steud.
  • Gynopogon ruscifolius Schum
  • Pulassarium ruscifolium Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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