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."
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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 Imperata

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Imperata Cirillo

, legitimate

, scientific

Cirillo, D.M.L. (1792), Plantarum Rariorum regni Neapolitani

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26, t. 11

[tax. nov.]

Type: Imperata arundinacea Cirillo

Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(6)

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405

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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131

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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616

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae.

Flora of South Australia

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54

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "After Ferrante Imperato, a Neapolitan botanist, 1550-1625."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

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58

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "After Ferrante Imperato, a Neapolitan botanist, 1550-1625"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae.

Flora of Western Australia

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312

[secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series

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23-25

[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

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517

[secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

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70

[secondary reference]

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

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47

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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244

[secondary reference]

Simon, B.K. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Imperata.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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1179

[secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae.

Flora of Australia

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503

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Imperata.

Flora of New South Wales

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432

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Australia

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494

[secondary reference]

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

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

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353

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Victoria

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618

[secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Poaceae.

Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia

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299

[secondary reference]

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

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99 (fig.), 283

[secondary reference]

Etymology: 'named after a Neapolitan botanist"

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

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429-430

[secondary reference]

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

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Imperatia T.Post & Kuntze

orth. var.

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