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 Sporobolus capensis

Poaceae Barnhart

Sporobolus capensis (Willd.) Kunth

, nom. superfl.

, scientific

Kunth, K.S. (1833), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 1

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212

[comb. nov.]

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

:

95

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Sporobolus indicus (L.) R.Br.

legitimate

Cross, D.O. & Vickery, J.W. (22 May 1950), List of the naturalised grasses in New South Wales.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium

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280

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of Western Australia

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162

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Agrostis capensis Willd.

nom. illeg.

taxonomic synonym:

Sporobolus indicus (L.) R.Br.

legitimate

common name:

Rat-tail Grass

[n/a]

common name:

Parramatta 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

:

534

[secondary reference]

common name:

Parramatta Grass

[n/a]

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

:

53

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

legitimate

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

:

992

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Sporobolus indicus (L.) R.Br.

legitimate

Baaijens, G.J. & Veldkamp, J.F. (1991), Sporobolus (Gramineae) in Malesia.

:

429

[secondary reference]

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

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

:

328

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Sporobolus indicus var. capensis Engl.

legitimate

Simon, B.K. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Sporobolus.

Flora of Australia

:

337

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

legitimate