Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Poaceae Barnhart
Eleusine Gaertn. , legitimate , scientific
Gaertner, J. (December 1788) , De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 1
7
[tax. nov.]
Brown, R. (27 March 1810) , Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805
186
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants
134
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Dactyloctenium Willd. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Leptochloa P.Beauv. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Acrachne Lindl. nom. inval., nom. nud.
Bailey, F.M. (1913) , Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants
628
[secondary reference]
Nash, G.V. in Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913) , Gramineae. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1
228
[secondary reference]
Lectotype:
Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertner
Black, J.M. (January 1948) , Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2
518
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"From Eleusis, a city in Attica, where Demeter, the Roman Ceres, the goddess of cereals and harvests, was worshipped."
Gardner, C.A. (1952) , Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1)
207
[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
543
[secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
33
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
44
[secondary reference]
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia
462
[secondary reference]
Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987) , Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2
959
[secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3
175
[secondary reference]
Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Eleusine. Flora of the Kimberley Region
1156
[secondary reference]
Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993) , Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50
474
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Eleusine. Flora of New South Wales 4
528
[secondary reference]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994) , Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49
475
[secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2
569
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1
415
[secondary reference]
Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005) , Eleusine. Flora of Australia 44B
416
[secondary reference]
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (sparingly naturalised)
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007) , Australian Plant Census
-
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Glensine Lindl. orth. var.
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008) , Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4
100 (fig.), 235
[secondary reference]
common name:
Crowsfoot Grasses
[n/a]
common name:
Goose Grasses
[n/a]
Etymology:
"from the Greek city Eleusis where Demeter, the goddes of cereals, was worshipped"
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3
302
[secondary reference]
