Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Poaceae Barnhart
Panicum capillare L. , legitimate , scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753) , Species Plantarum 1
58
[tax. nov.]
Type:
"Habitat in Virginia, Jamaica."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874) , Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(67)
191
[secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1877) , Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland
15
[secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. (1952) , Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1)
257
[secondary reference]
common name:
Witch Grass [n/a]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains
524
[secondary reference]
common name:
Witchgrass [n/a]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
66
[secondary reference]
common name:
Witch Grass [n/a]
Vickery, J.W. (1975) , Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2)
172-173
[secondary reference]
common name:
Witchgrass [n/a]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981) , Plants of Western New South Wales
118
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
48
[secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2
35
[secondary reference]
Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986) , Gramineae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4
1968
[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
971
[secondary reference]
common name:
Witchgrass [n/a]
Webster, R.D. (1987) , The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae)
125-126
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Panicum capillare var. occidentale Rydb. legitimate
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Panicum. Flora of New South Wales 4
486-487
[secondary reference]
common name:
Witchgrass [n/a]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994) , Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B
335
[secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2
586
[secondary reference]
common name:
Common Millet [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1
424
[secondary reference]
common name:
Witchgrass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008) , Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4
314-315 (fig.)
[secondary reference]
common name:
Witchgrass [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009) , Australian Plant Census
-
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum capillare L. var. capillare legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Panicum capillare var. occidentale Rydb. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Panicum capillare var. brevifolium Vasey ex Rydb. & Shear legitimate
APC Comment:
Panicum capillare var. capillare and P. capillare var. occidentale are recognised as distinct taxa in NSW and Tas.
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009) , Australian Plant Census
-
[pro parte misapplied]
pro parte misapplied to:
Panicum hillmanii Chase legitimate
by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986) , Gramineae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4
Baker, M.L., Wapstra, M. & Lawrence, D. (20 August 2019) , An annotated census of the lesser-known naturalised plants of Tasmania. Muelleria 38
64
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum capillare L. var. capillare legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Panicum capillare var. occidentale Rydb. legitimate
common name:
witchgrass
[n/a]
