Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Poaceae Barnhart
Dichanthium P.Willemet , legitimate , scientific
Willemet, P.R.F. de P. (1796) , Herbarium Mauritianum. Annalen der Botanick (Usteri) 18
11
[tax. nov.]
Type:
Dichanthium nodosum Willemet (nom. illeg. )
Merrill, E.D. (31 December 1906) , An emumeration of Philippine Gramineae with keys to genera and species. Philippine Journal of Science 1 (Suppl. 5)
338
[basionym]
basionym of:
Andropogon subg. Dichanthium (Merr. legitimate
Black, J.M. (1943) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1
62
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"Greek dikha , apart, different; anthos , flower; alluding to the barren sessile spikelets at base of raceme"
Gardner, C.A. (1952) , Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1)
324
[secondary reference]
Roberty, G.E. (July 1960) , Monographie systématique des Andropogonées du globe. Boissiera 9
156-171
[secondary reference]
Vickery, J.W. (1961) , Gramineae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 19(1)
45-49
[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
519
[secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
72
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
42
[secondary reference]
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia
487-488
[secondary reference]
Kakudidi, E.K.Z., Lazarides, M. & Carnahan, J.A. (1989) , A revision of Enneapogon (Poaceae, Pappophoreae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 1(4)
487-488
[secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3
257
[secondary reference]
Simon, B.K. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Dichanthium. Flora of the Kimberley Region
1145
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4
441-442
[secondary reference]
common name:
Bluegrasses [n/a]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994) , Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B
354
[secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2
620-621
[secondary reference]
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
288
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008) , Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4
83 (fig.), 85 (fig.), 206-207
[secondary reference]
common name:
Bluegrasses [n/a]
Etymology:
"from the Greek for 'at variance' and 'flower', referring to the lower spikelet pairs that differ from the upper pairs"
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3
268
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009) , Australian Plant Census
-
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Dicanthium Kenneally, Edinger & T.Willing orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Andropogon subg. Dichanthium (Merr. legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas (naturalised)
