Poaceae Barnhart
Brachyachne (Benth.) Stapf
, legitimate, scientific
[Stapf, O. in Oliver, D., Thiselton Dyer, W.T., Prain, D. & Hill, A.W. (ed.) (1 July 1917), Gramineae. Flora of Tropical Africa 9(1)]:
20
[comb. et stat. nov.]
basionym:
Cynodon sect. Brachyachne Benth. & Hook.f.
legitimate
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Stapf in Prain only mentions the genus in the key, however, the combination is made by indirect reference to the basionym.
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Reference Note:
in clavis
[Stapf, O. (June 1922), Brachyachne fulva, Stapf. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 31]:
sub t. 3099
[secondary reference]
[Gardner, C.A. & Hubbard, C.E. (September 1938), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 34(3)]:
sub.t. 3362, p. 2
[secondary reference]
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Type:
Brachyachne convergens (F.Muell.) Stapf
[Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1]:
130
[secondary reference]
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Etymology:
"Greek brakhys, short; akhne, a glume; the flowering glume is shorter than the 2 outer glumes"
[Lazarides, M. (1972), A revision of Australian Chlorideae (Gramineae). Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series 5]:
41-48
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Cynodon sect. Brachyachne Benth. & Hook.f.
legitimate
[Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales]:
38
[secondary reference]
[Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia]:
466
[secondary reference]
[Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3]:
158
[secondary reference]
[Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Brachyachne. Flora of the Kimberley Region]:
1131
[secondary reference]
[Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Brachyachne. Flora of New South Wales 4]:
522-523
[secondary reference]
common name:
Native Couch
[n/a]
[Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Poaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia]:
282
[secondary reference]
[Nightingale, M.E., Lazarides, M. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Brachyachne. Flora of Australia 44B]:
294
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Cynodon sect. Brachyachne Benth. & Hook.f.
legitimate
[Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4]:
93 (fig.), 170
[secondary reference]
common name:
Native Couch
[n/a]
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Etymology:
"from the Greek words for 'short' and 'glumes', alluding to the short lemmas."
[Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3]:
117
[secondary reference]
[Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census]:
-
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Cynodon sect. Brachyachne Benth. & Hook.f.
legitimate
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APC Dist.:
WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW
[Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census]:
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[taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of:
Cynodon Rich.
nom. cons.
[Albrecht, D.E. & McLay, T.G.B. (2 December 2022), A new species of Brachyachne (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae) from semi-arid Northern Territory and Western Australia, and additional notes on the genus. Nuytsia 33]:
272-273
[secondary reference]