Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Digitaria diffusa

Poaceae Barnhart

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Poaceae(fam.)
Digitaria(gen.)
diffusa(sp.)

Digitaria diffusa Vickery

, legitimate

, scientific

Vickery, J.W. (5 October 1961), Contributions to the taxonomy of Australian grasses. II.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium

:

84

[tax. nov.]

Type: "New South Wales: Upper Colo, J. Vickery, 3.1950 (NSW 11017)."

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series

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99-100

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

43

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Digitaria tenuissima Hughes

legitimate

misapplication: Digitaria didactyla Willd. legitimate by

Willdenow, C.L. (1809), Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis 1

: 91 misapplication: Panicum tenuissimum Benth. nom. illeg. by

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

: 470

Webster, R.D. (31 January 1984), A revision of the genus Digitaria Haller (Paniceae: Poaceae) in Australia.

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176-177

[secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae)

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47-48

[secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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236

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p.

Flora of New South Wales

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460

[secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae.

Flora of Victoria

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610

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4

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216 (fig.)

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census

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APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, Vic