Poaceae Barnhart
Poa fax J.H.Willis & Court
, legitimate, scientific
[Willis, J.H. & Court, A.B. (1956), Changes in the nomenclature of three Victorian Monocotyledons. Muelleria 1(1)]:
45
[nom. nov.]
replaced synonym:
Poa lepida F.Muell.
nom. illeg.
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Etymology:
"The short epithet fax is here bestowed in the necessary new name for this little annual grass of southern Australia (chiefly from coastal and/or Mallee areas) in allusion to its dense, spikelike inflorescence which resembles a torch with ascending tongues of flame."
[Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957)]:
66
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Poa lepida F.Muell.
nom. illeg.
[Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1]:
99
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Poa lepida F.Muell.
nom. illeg.
vernacular name:
Scaly Meadow-grass
[n/a]
vernacular name:
Scaly Poa
[n/a]
[Vickery, J.W. (7 December 1970), A taxonomic study of the genus Poa L. in Australia. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 4(4)]:
170-171
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Poa lepida F.Muell.
nom. illeg.
[Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales]:
134
[secondary reference]
common name:
Scaly Poa
[n/a]
common name:
Scaly Meadow-grass
[n/a]
[Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales]:
51
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Poa lepida F.Muell.
nom. illeg.
[Clayton, W.D. (1985), Miscellaneous notes on Pooid grasses. Kew Bulletin 40(4)]:
728
[basionym]
basionym of:
Neuropoa fax (J.H.Willis & Court) Clayton
legitimate
[Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2]:
36
[secondary reference]
[Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5]:
2
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Neuropoa fax (J.H.Willis & Court) Clayton
legitimate
[Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poa. Flora of New South Wales 4]:
623
[secondary reference]
[Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2]:
419, Fig. 83a-b
[secondary reference]
misapplication:
Poa lepida F.Muell.
nom. illeg.
by [Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(64)]: 130
common name:
Scaly Poa
[n/a]
[Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4]:
350 (fig.)
[secondary reference]
common name:
Scaly Poa
[n/a]
[Walsh, N.G., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Poa. Flora of Australia 44A]:
307-308, Fig. 41A-B
APC
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Poa lepida F.Muell.
nom. illeg.
nomenclatural synonym:
Neuropoa fax (J.H.Willis & Court) Clayton
legitimate
common name:
Scaly Poa
[n/a]
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APC Dist.:
WA, SA, NSW, Vic