Poaceae Barnhart
Spinifex L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (October 1771), Mantissa Plantarum Altera [2]: 163, 300 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Spinifex squarrosus L.
Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1807), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 2(24): 81 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 131 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 612 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 62 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Latin, "thorn-maker": alluding to the pungent leaved of the Asiatic species first described."
Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 78 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "Latin, "thorn-maker"; alluding to the pungent leaves of the Asiatic species first described"
Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 250 [secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 528 [secondary reference]
Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 269-271 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 53 [secondary reference]
Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 990 [secondary reference]
Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 216-219 [secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 243 [secondary reference]
Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Spinifex. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1222 [secondary reference]
Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 500, 502 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 504 [secondary reference]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 493 [secondary reference]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 351 [secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 615 [secondary reference]
Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997), Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands: 90 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 434 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 80 (fig.), 373 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "from the Latin for 'thornmaker', referring to the pungent leaves of the Asian species first described"
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 813 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), AR, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI (naturalised), Vic, Tas
Morrone, O., Aagesen, L., Scataglini, M.A., Salariato, D.L., Denham, S.S., Chemisquy, M.A., Sede, S.M., Giussani, L.M., Kellog, E.A. & Zuloaga, F.O. (2012), Phylogeny of the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae): integrating plastid DNA sequences and morphology into a new classification. Cladistics 28(4): 349 [secondary reference]