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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Pennisetum pedicellatum

Poaceae Barnhart

Pennisetum pedicellatum Trin.

, legitimate

, scientific

Trinius, C.B. von (1834), Annales des Sciences Naturelles 1

:

184

[tax. nov.]

Type: "V. spp. e Cap. vir."

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

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

:

253

[secondary reference]

Text: " ... has been cultivated experimentally in New South Wales by the Soil Conservation Service ...”

Simon, B.K. (June 1978), A preliminary check-list of Australian grasses.

Technical Bulletin, Botany Branch, Queensland Department of Primary Industries

:

36

[secondary reference]

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

:

36

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

66

[secondary reference]

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

:

189-190

[secondary reference]

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Pennisetum.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

1204

[secondary reference]

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

:

-

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Pennisetum polystachion (L.) Schult. legitimate by

Hussey, B.M.J., Keighery, G.J., Cousens, R.D., Dodd, J.L. & Lloyd, S.G. (1997), Western Weeds: a guide to the weeds of Western Australia Edn. 1

: 64

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

Chemisquy, M.A, Giussani, L.M., Scataglini, M.A. & Kellogg, E.A. (2010), Phylogenetic studies favour the unification of Pennisetum, Cenchrus and Odontelytrum (Poaceae): a combined nuclear, plastid and morphological analysis, and nomenclatural combinations in Cenchrus.

Annals of Botany

new ser., 106(1)

:

128

[basionym]

basionym of:

Cenchrus pedicellatus (Trin.) Morrone

legitimate

Simon, B.K. (7 December 2010), New taxa, nomenclatural changes and notes on Australian grasses in the tribe Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae).

Austrobaileya

:

191

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cenchrus pedicellatus (Trin.) Morrone

legitimate

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

:

-

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cenchrus pedicellatus (Trin.) Morrone

legitimate

Biggs, L.J. & Parker, C.M. (21 November 2013), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2012.

:

516

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Cenchrus pedicellatus (Trin.) Morrone

legitimate