Poaceae Barnhart
Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth
, legitimate, scientific
[Kunth, K.S. (1829), Revision des graminees Part 5]:
67
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
[Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants]:
133
[secondary reference]
[Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses]:
28
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Vilfa virginica (L.) P.Beauv.
legitimate
[Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4]:
7
[secondary reference]
[Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species]:
43
[secondary reference]
common name:
Salt-marsh Couch-grass
[n/a]
[Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora]:
268
[secondary reference]
[Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants]:
623
[secondary reference]
[Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85)]:
348-349
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Vilfa virginica (L.) P.Beauv.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Podosemum virginicum (L.) Link
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Agrostis littoralis Lam.
legitimate
misapplication:
Sporobolus matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
by [Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1846), Gramineae. Plantae Preissianae 2(1)]: 97
[Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1]:
68
[secondary reference]
[Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis]:
8
[secondary reference]
[Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1]:
94-95
[secondary reference]
[Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1)]:
160
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
[Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains]:
534
[secondary reference]
common name:
Sand Couch
[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)]:
223
[secondary reference]
[Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales]:
53
[secondary reference]
[Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia]:
469, Fig. 595
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
common name:
Salt couch
[n/a]
[Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2]:
37
[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]:
992
[secondary reference]
common name:
Marine Couch
[n/a]
[Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26]:
67
[secondary reference]
[Smith-White, A.R. (1988), Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth in coastal Australia: the reproductive behaviour and the distribution of morphological types and chromosome races. Australian Journal of Botany 36(1)]:
23-39
[secondary reference]
[Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3]:
182, Fig. 28D
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon
legitimate
common name:
Marine Couch
[n/a]
common name:
Sand Couch
[n/a]
[Baaijens, G.J. & Veldkamp, J.F. (1991), Sporobolus (Gramineae) in Malesia. Blumea 35(2)]:
445-450
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Vilfa virginica (L.) P.Beauv.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Podosemum virginicum (L.) Link
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth var. virginicus
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. ? pallida Benth.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. pallidus Benth.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey
nom. inval., nom. nud.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus Domin
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon
legitimate
[Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Sporobolus. Flora of the Kimberley Region]:
1223-1225, Fig. 346D
[secondary reference]
common name:
Sand Couch
[n/a]
[Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50]:
477-478
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
common name:
Coastal Rat-tail Grass
[n/a]
common name:
Salt Couch Grass
[n/a]
[Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Sporobolus. Flora of New South Wales 4]:
525
[secondary reference]
[Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49]:
476, 95D
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
[Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B]:
328-329, Fig. 110B
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Vilfa virginica (L.) P.Beauv.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Podosemum virginicum (L.) Link
legitimate
[Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2]:
572, Fig. 115i-j
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
common name:
Salt-couch
[n/a]
[Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia]:
225
[secondary reference]
common name:
Saltwater Couch
[n/a]
[Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997), Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands]:
94-95
[secondary reference]
common name:
Sand couch
[n/a]
[Simon, B.K. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (15 August 1999), Revision of the genus Sporobolus (Poaceae, Chloridoideae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 12(3)]:
409, Figs. 3H, 4F
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus Domin
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon
legitimate
[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]:
324, Fig. 78
[secondary reference]
common name:
Salt-couch
[n/a]
[Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1]:
436
[secondary reference]
common name:
Salt Couch
[n/a]
common name:
Marine Couch
[n/a]
[Simon, B.K. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Sporobolus. Flora of Australia 44B]:
334-335, Plate 48
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Vilfa virginica (L.) P.Beauv.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Vilfa matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. pallidus Benth.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus Domin
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon
legitimate
common name:
Sand Couch
[n/a]
[Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census]:
-
APC
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Vilfa virginica (L.) P.Beauv.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Podosemum virginicum (L.) Link
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Podosaemum virginicum Trin.
orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth var. virginicus
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Vilfa intermedia Trin.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Vilfa matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. ? pallida Benth.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. pallidus Benth.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey
nom. inval., nom. nud.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey
nom. inval., nom. nud.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus benthamii F.M.Bailey var. benthamii
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus benthami var. robustus Domin
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus Domin
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon
legitimate
-
APC Comment:
Sporobolus virginicus var. virginicus and S. virginicus var. minor are treated as distinct taxa in NSW.
-
APC Dist.:
WA, ChI, AR, NT, SA, Qld, CSI, NSW, LHI, NI, Vic, Tas
[Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4]:
380 (fig.)
[secondary reference]
[Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2]:
256-257, photos 6-9
[secondary reference]
common name:
Marine Couch
[n/a]