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 Pennisetum americanum

Poaceae Barnhart

Pennisetum americanum (L.) K.Schum.

, nom. rej.

, scientific

Schumann, K.M. in Engler, H.G.A. (1895), Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Africas und der Nachbargebiete 2/3B

:

51

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Panicum americanum L.

legitimate

Leeke, P. (1907), Untersuchungen uber Abstammung und Heimat der Negerhirse [Pennisetum americanum (L.) K.Schum.].

Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften

:

1-108, Pl. 1 (Figs 3, 6, 13, 15), Pl. 2 (Figs 2-14), Pl. 3

[secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae.

Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales

:

244-246

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Panicum americanum L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Holcus spicatus L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Alopecurus typhoides Burm.f.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum spicatum (L.) Roem. & Schult.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum typhoides (Burm.f.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb.

legitimate

pro parte misapplication: Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br. legitimate by

Chase, M.A. (1921), The North American species of Pennisetum.

Contributions from the United States National Herbarium

22(4)

: 216-218, Fig. 66 pro parte misapplication: Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br. legitimate by

Hitchcock, A.S. & Chase, M.A. (1951), Manual of the grasses of the United States

: 727, 933, Fig. 1109 misapplication: Pennisetum typhoideum Rich. legitimate by

Richard, L.C.M. in Persoon, C.H. (1805), Pennisetum.

Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum

1

: 72

common name:

Horse Millet

[n/a]

common name:

Indian Millet

[n/a]

common name:

Bulrush Millet

[n/a]

common name:

Pearl Millet

[n/a]

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

:

50

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

36

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br.

legitimate

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

:

187

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

238

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br.

legitimate

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

Flora of New South Wales

:

499

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br.

legitimate

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

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone

legitimate