Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Poaceae Barnhart
Vulpia C.C.Gmel. , legitimate , scientific
Gmelin, C.C. (1805) , Flora Badensis Alsatica 1
8
[tax. nov.]
Type:
Vulpia myurus (L.) C.Gmelin
Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Hooker, W.J. (ed.) (1840) , The Journal of Botany
419
[secondary reference]
Bentham, G. & Hooker, J.D. (7 February 1880) , Genera Plantarum 3(1)
1198
[basionym]
basionym of:
Festuca sect. Vulpia (Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants
135
[pro parte taxonomic synonym]
pro parte taxonomic synonym of:
Agropyron Gaertn. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants
134
[pro parte taxonomic synonym]
pro parte taxonomic synonym of:
Festuca L. legitimate
Black, J.M. (1943) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1
126
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"After J. S. Vulpius, 1760-1840, a German chemist"
Gardner, C.A. (1952) , Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1)
89
[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
546
[secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
26
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
55
[secondary reference]
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia
431
[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
997
[secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3
110
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Vulpia. Flora of New South Wales 4
607
[secondary reference]
common name:
Rat's Tail Fescue [n/a]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994) , Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49
452
[secondary reference]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994) , Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B
202-203
[secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2
405, 407
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1
438
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008) , Australian Plant Census
-
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Festuca sect. Vulpia (Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008) , Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4
102 (fig.), 397
[secondary reference]
common name:
Rat's Tail Fescue [n/a]
Etymology:
"named after a German chemist, J. Vulpius"
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3
903
[secondary reference]
Weiller, C.M. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009) , Vulpia. Flora of Australia 44A
290-291
[secondary reference]
common name:
Rat's Tail Fescue [n/a]
