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 Astrebla

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Astrebla F.Muell. ex Benth.

, legitimate

, scientific

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

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602

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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134

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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628

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae.

Flora of South Australia

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83

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Greek a, not; streblos, twisted: referring to the awn."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

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132

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Greek a, not; streblos, twisted; referring to the awn"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae.

Flora of Western Australia

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201-205

[secondary reference]

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

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37

[secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae).

Flora of Central Australia

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447

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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162-163

[secondary reference]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Astrebla.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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1127-1128

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Astrebla.

Flora of New South Wales

:

546

[secondary reference]

common name:

Mitchell Grass

[n/a]

Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Astrebla.

Flora of Australia

:

452-453

[secondary reference]

common name:

Mitchell Grasses

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Astrebla F.Muell.

nom. inval., nom. nud.

APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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

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100 (fig.), 135-136

[secondary reference]

common name:

Mitchell Grasses

[n/a]

Etymology: "from the Greek for 'not twisted', referring to the awn"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

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77

[secondary reference]