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 Agrostis africana

Poaceae Barnhart

Agrostis africana Poir.

, legitimate

, scientific

Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (3 September 1810), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 1(1)

:

254

[nom. nov.]

Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie

:

16, 146, 181

[basionym]

basionym of:

Vilfa africana (Poir.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

Robyns, F.H.E.A.W. & Tournay, R.L.J.A. (1955), Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'Etat a Bruxelles 25

:

242

[basionym]

basionym of:

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957)

:

51

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

legitimate

Jovet, P.A. & Guedes, M. (1973), Validation of names in Sporobolus.

:

163

[basionym]

basionym of:

Sporobolus indicus var. africanus (Poir.) Jovet & Guedes

legitimate

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

184

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Sporobolus indicus var. africanus (Poir.) Jovet & Guedes

legitimate

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

Flora of Australia

:

477

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

legitimate

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

328

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Sporobolus indicus var. capensis Engl.

legitimate

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

Flora of Victoria

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571

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Sporobolus indicus var. capensis Engl.

legitimate

Simon, B.K. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Sporobolus.

Flora of Australia

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337

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

legitimate