Poaceae Barnhart
Eragrostis brownii (Kunth) Nees , legitimate, scientific
Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Wight, R. & Arnott, G.A.W. (1834), Catalogue of Indian Plants 2: 105 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Poa brownii Kunth legitimate
Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Hooker, W.J. & Arnott, G.A.W. (1837), The Botany of Captain Beechey's Voyage: 253 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa polymorpha R.Br. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Poa brownii Kunth legitimate
Steudel, E.G. von (November 1840), Nomenclator Botanicus Edn. 2, 1(5-6): 562 BHL [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa polymorpha R.Br. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Megastachya polymorpha P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Poa brownii Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis bahiensis Schrad. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 20 [secondary reference]
Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(3): 279 BHL [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa polymorpha R.Br. nom. illeg.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 135 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 14 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa polymorpha R.Br. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Megastachya polymorpha P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Poa brownii Kunth legitimate common name: Love Grass [n/a]
Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 17 [secondary reference]
common name: Brown love grass [n/a]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 632 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa polymorpha R.Br. nom. illeg. common name: Common Love Grass [n/a]
Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 399 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Eragrostis elongata (Willd.) J.Jacq. legitimate
Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 78 [secondary reference]
Jedwabnick, E. (1924), Eragrostidis specierum imprimis ad herb Berol., Hamburg., Monac., Regimont. digestarum conspectus. Botanisches Archiv: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Botanik 5: 188 [misapplied]
misapplied to: Eragrostis polymorpha Jedwabn. nom. illeg. by Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(3): 279
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: 119, Fig. 153 [secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 119 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa brownii Kunth legitimate
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 545 [secondary reference]
common name: Brown's Love Grass [n/a]
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: 98 [secondary reference]
common name: Common Lovegrass [n/a] common name: Brown's Lovegrass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 45 [secondary reference]
doubtful taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis benthamii Mattei legitimate
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: 62 [secondary reference]
Lazarides, M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Eragrostis. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 960 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Eragrostis benthamii Mattei legitimate
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 169 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa polymorpha R.Br. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Poa brownii Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis urvillei Steud. legitimate common name: Brown's 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: 543-544 [secondary reference]
common name: Brown's Lovegrass [n/a]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 475 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa polymorpha R.Br. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Poa brownii Kunth legitimate
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 566, Fig. 113k-l [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa brownii Kunth legitimate common name: Common Love-grass [n/a]
Lazarides, M. (18 April 1997), A revision of Eragrostis (Eragrostideae, Eleusininae, Poaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10(1): 101, Figs. 2a, j, 6h, i, 7h (map) [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa polymorpha R.Br. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Poa polymorpha var. β R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Megastachya polymorpha P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Poa brownei Kunth orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Poa brownii Kunth legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eragrostis atrovirens f. brownii (Kunth) Hack. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eragrostis polymorpha Jedwabn. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Poa polymorpha var. α R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis urvillei Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis brownii var. patens Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis benthamii Mattei legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis philippica Jedwabn. legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis rara Domin legitimate
  • Text: "Syntypes: Queensland: Port Curtis District; Shoalwater Bay, 20x.1803, R.Brown (6284), Poa polymorpha var. alpha (BM, lectotype designated here, E, K, photo, BRI). New South Wales: Central Coast; Port Jackson, R.Brown (6283), Poa polymorpha var. beta (BM, K)."
Veldkamp, J.F. (2002), Revision of Eragrostis (Gramineae, Chloridoideae) in Malesia. Blumea 47(1): 169-171 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa polymorpha R.Br. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Megastachya polymorpha P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Poa brownii Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Poa pubescens R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis atrovirens (Desf.) Trin. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis zeylanica Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis zeylanica var. glomerata Nees nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis pubescens (R.Br.) Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis spartinoides Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis cumingii var. novoguineensis Jansen legitimate
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 416 [secondary reference]
common name: Brown's Lovegrass [n/a]
Jessup, L.W. (2005), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 3 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis benthamii Mattei legitimate
Palmer, J., Lazarides, M., McCusker, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eragrostis. Flora of Australia 44B: 398-399, Figs 67H-I, 70A-D [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Poa polymorpha R.Br. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Megastachya polymorpha P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Poa brownii Kunth legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eragrostis atrovirens f. brownii (Kunth) Hack. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eragrostis polymorpha Druce nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Eragrostis polymorpha Jedwabn. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis zeylanica Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis urvillei Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis brownii var. patens Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis benthamii Mattei legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis philippica Jedwabn. legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis rara Domin legitimate common name: Brown's Lovegrass [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Eragrostis brownei Nees orth. var. orthographic variant: Eragrostis brownei Steud. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Poa polymorpha R.Br. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Megastachya polymorpha P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Poa brownei Kunth orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Poa brownii Kunth legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eragrostis brownii (Kunth) Nees ex Steud. isonym nomenclatural synonym: Eragrostis brownii (Kunth) Nees var. brownii legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eragrostis atrovirens f. brownii (Kunth) Hack. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eragrostis polymorpha Druce nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Eragrostis polymorpha Jedwabn. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis zeylanica Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis urvillei Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis brownii var. patens Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis benthami Mattei orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis benthamii Mattei legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis rara Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis philippica Jedwabn. legitimate
  • APC Comment: Eragrostis benthamii is recognised as a distinct taxon in NSW.
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, NI (naturalised), ACT, Vic, Tas (naturalised)
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 250 (fig.) [secondary reference]
common name: Brown's Lovegrass [n/a]