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 Rostraria

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Rostraria Trin.

, legitimate

, scientific

Trinius, C.B. von (1820), Fundamenta Agrostographiae

:

149

[tax. nov.]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora

:

241

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

120

[secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

:

251

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Lophochloa Rchb.

legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Rostraria.

Flora of New South Wales

:

592

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Lophochloa Rchb.

legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

457-458

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Victoria

:

455

[secondary reference]

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

:

102 (fig.), 106 (fig.), 360

[secondary reference]

Text: "from the Latin words for 'beak' and 'much' or 'very', referring to the shape opf the lemma apex in the type species'

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

:

749

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Rostraria.

Flora of Australia

:

158

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Lophochloa Rchb.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Koeleria subg. Lophochloa (Rchb.) Domin

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)