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 indicus

Poaceae Barnhart

Sporobolus indicus (L.) R.Br.

, legitimate

, scientific

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

:

170

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Agrostis indica L.

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony.

Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly

:

20

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1877), Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland

:

20

[secondary reference]

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

:

622

[secondary reference]

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

:

133

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses

:

27

[secondary reference]

common name:

Rat's-tail Grass

[n/a]

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species

:

43

[secondary reference]

common name:

Tussock grass

[n/a]

common name:

Parramatta grass

[n/a]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

349

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Agrostis indica L.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Vilfa indica (L.) Trin. ex Steud.

legitimate

Laing, R.M. (1915), A revised list of the Norfolk Island flora, with some notes on the species.

Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

:

16

[secondary reference]

Oliver, W.R.B. (1917), The vegetation and flora of Lord Howe Island.

Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

:

111, 157

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South Australia

:

68

[secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae.

Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis

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8

[secondary reference]

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

:

95

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Sporobolus capensis (Willd.) Kunth

nom. superfl.

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

Flora of Western Australia

:

162

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Sporobolus capensis (Willd.) Kunth

nom. superfl.

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957)

:

51

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay legitimate by

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

Flora of South Australia

1

: 68

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

37

[secondary reference]

misapplication: Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay legitimate by

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia

: 37

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

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Sporobolus capensis (Willd.) Kunth

nom. superfl.

common name:

Rat's Tail Grass

[n/a]

common name:

Paramatta Grass

[n/a]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

184

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Agrostis indica L.

legitimate

common name:

Parramatta Grass

[n/a]

common name:

Rat's Tail Grass

[n/a]

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

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421-440

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of New South Wales

:

525-526

[secondary reference]

common name:

Parramatta Grass

[n/a]

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

Flora of Australia

:

477

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay legitimate by

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

: 622

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay legitimate by

Laing, R.M. (1915), A revised list of the Norfolk Island flora, with some notes on the species.

Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

47

: 16

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay legitimate by

Oliver, W.R.B. (1917), The vegetation and flora of Lord Howe Island.

Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

49

: 111, 157

Simon, B.K. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (15 August 1999), Revision of the genus Sporobolus (Poaceae, Chloridoideae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

397, Figs. 5C, 14

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Agrostis indica L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Vilfa berteroana Trin.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Sporobolus berteroanus Hitchc. & Chase

legitimate

Jessup, L.W. (2005), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 3 Changes to names or status of taxa

:

-

[secondary reference]

Text: "Text name misapplied in Qld, current name uncertain."

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

Flora of Australia

:

346

[secondary reference]

Text: "A common weedy species in the New World and Hawai'i. It is very similar to S. africanus and S. fertilis but differs from these species in having the mature grain much shorter in relation to the lemma length (80-90% the lemma length as opposed to 50-60%). The name was first applied to weedy plants around Port Jackson, N.S.W., by Robert Brown when he described the genus Sporobolus, but these plants belong to the related S. africanus from the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa."

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

:

-

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay legitimate by

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

: 622

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay legitimate by

Laing, R.M. (1915), A revised list of the Norfolk Island flora, with some notes on the species.

Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

47

: 16

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay legitimate by

Oliver, W.R.B. (1917), The vegetation and flora of Lord Howe Island.

Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

49

: 111, 157

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2

:

384

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Sporobolus africanus (Poir.) Robyns & Tournay

legitimate