Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Sporobolus fertilis

Poaceae Barnhart

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Poaceae(fam.)
Sporobolus(gen.)
fertilis(sp.)

Sporobolus fertilis (Steud.) Clayton

, legitimate

, scientific

Clayton, W.D. (1965), Studies in the Gramineae: VI.

:

291

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Agrostis fertilis Steud.

legitimate

Simon, B.K. (June 1978), A preliminary check-list of Australian grasses.

Technical Bulletin, Botany Branch, Queensland Department of Primary Industries

:

50

[secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

184

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Sporobolus indicus var. fertilis (Steud.) Jovet & Guedes

legitimate

Baaijens, G.J. & Veldkamp, J.F. (1991), Sporobolus (Gramineae) in Malesia.

:

437

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Sporobolus indicus var. major (Buse) Baaijens

legitimate

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

477, Fig. 90C-D

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Agrostis fertilis Steud.

legitimate

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Atoll Research Bulletin

:

25

[secondary reference]

common name:

Sand Couch

[n/a]

Simon, B.K. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (15 August 1999), Revision of the genus Sporobolus (Poaceae, Chloridoideae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

395, Figs. 2C, 5B, 13

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Agrostis fertilis Steud.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Sporobolus diandrus var. major Buse

legitimate

Jessup, L.W. (2005), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 3 Changes to names or status of taxa

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Sporobolus indicus var. fertilis (Steud.) Jovet & Guedes

legitimate

Simon, B.K. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Sporobolus.

Flora of Australia

:

338, Plate 50

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Agrostis fertilis Steud.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Sporobolus indicus var. fertilis (Steud.) Jovet & Guedes

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Sporobolus diandrus var. major Buse

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Sporobolus indicus var. major (Buse) Baaijens

legitimate

common name:

Bloomsbury Grass

[n/a]

common name:

Giant Parramatta Grass

[n/a]

APC Dist.: CoI, ChI, Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4

:

378 (fig.)

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Sporobolus indicus var. major (Buse) Baaijens

legitimate

common name:

Giant Parramatta Grass

[n/a]