Poaceae Barnhart
Eragrostis speciosa (Roem. & Schult.) Steud. , legitimate, scientific
Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(3): 279 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Poa speciosa Roem. & Schult. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 135 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 6 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 632 [secondary reference]
Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 404 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa speciosa Roem. & Schult. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Poa elegans R.Br. nom. illeg.
Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 78 [secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 10 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 118 [secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 119 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa speciosa Roem. & Schult. legitimate
Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 221 BHL [secondary reference]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 105 [secondary reference]
common name: Handsome Lovegrass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 45 [secondary reference]
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 458 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa speciosa Roem. & Schult. legitimate common name: Handsome lovegrass [n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 33 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 63 [secondary reference]
Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Eragrostis. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1165-1166 [secondary reference]
common name: Handsome Lovegrass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 543 [secondary reference]
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 220 [secondary reference]
common name: Handsome Lovegrass [n/a]
Lazarides, M. (18 April 1997), A revision of Eragrostis (Eragrostideae, Eleusininae, Poaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10(1): 151, figs 4f, 6n, 13f (map) [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: Synonyms: Queensland: Burke District; Gulf of Carpentaria, Sweers Island ('Carpentaria Island a'), 13.xii.1803, R.Brown (6273), Poa elegans (beta) (BM, K); Bentinck Island, ('Carpentaria Island b'), R.Brown (6273), Poa elegans (alpha) (BM, lectotype designated here, K; photo, BRI); Sweers Island, R.Brown (6273), Poa (gamma) (BM, K).
nomenclatural synonym: Poa elegans R.Br. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Poa speciosa Roem. & Schult. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis interrupta var. grandis F.M.Bailey legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis oldfieldii Domin legitimate
Palmer, J., Lazarides, M., McCusker, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eragrostis. Flora of Australia 44B: 363, Figs 65J-K, 67N APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa elegans R.Br. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Poa speciosa Roem. & Schult. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis interrupta var. grandis F.M.Bailey legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis oldfieldii Domin legitimate common name: Handsome Lovegrass [n/a]
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 257 (fig.) [secondary reference]