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 Distichlis

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Distichlis Raf.

, legitimate

, scientific

Rafinesque, C.S. (August 1819), Des nouveaux genres de plantes observes en 1817 et 1818 dans l'interieur des Etats-Unis d'Amerique.

Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts

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104

BHL

[tax. nov.]

Type: Distichlis maritima Raf. nom. illeg.

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

:

637

[secondary reference]

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

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135

[secondary reference]

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Uniola L.

legitimate

pro parte taxonomic synonym:

Brizopyrum Link

legitimate

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

Flora of South Australia

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79

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Greek distikhos, in 2 rows: position of the leaves."

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

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121

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Greek distikhos, in 2 rows; position of the leaves"

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

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43

[secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae).

Flora of Central Australia

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431

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of New South Wales

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544

[secondary reference]

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

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

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323

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Victoria

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556

[secondary reference]

Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Distichlis.

Flora of Australia

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322

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA, SA, NSW, Vic, Tas

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

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100 (fig.), 223

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "from the Greek for 'two-rowed', referring to the conspicuously distichous leaves"

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

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283

[secondary reference]