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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The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
Putting double quotes around your entire query will cause it to be matched exactly (except case). e.g. "Viola L." will match just Viola L.
You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Sporobolus pallidus

Poaceae Barnhart

Sporobolus pallidus Lindl.

, legitimate

, scientific

Lindley, J. in Mitchell, T.L. (1848), Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia

:

187

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not cited).

Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(3)

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162

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Vilfa lindleyi Steud.

nom. illeg.

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

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20

[secondary reference]

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

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27

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Sporobolus lindleyi Benth.

legitimate

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

Bibliotheca Botanica

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350

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Sporobolus lindleyi Benth.

legitimate

Lazarides, M. (18 April 1997), A revision of Eragrostis (Eragrostideae, Eleusininae, Poaceae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

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159

[secondary reference]

Type: Queensland; Maranoa District; Maranoa River, neighbourhood of Mitchell, i.vi.1846, T.L.Mitchell 159 (holo, CGE).

Lazarides, M. (18 April 1997), A revision of Eragrostis (Eragrostideae, Eleusininae, Poaceae) in Australia.

Australian Systematic Botany

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159

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Eragrostis tenellula (Kunth) Steud.

legitimate

Palmer, J., Lazarides, M., McCusker, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eragrostis.

Flora of Australia

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395

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Eragrostis tenellula (Kunth) Steud.

legitimate

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

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-

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Eragrostis tenellula (Kunth) Steud.

legitimate