Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Cyperaceae Juss.
Fimbristylis dichotoma ( L.) Vahl
, legitimate , scientific
Vahl, M.(H.) (1805) , Enumeratio Plantarum 2 :
287
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Scirpus dichotomus L.
legitimate
Steudel, E.G. von (1855) , Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 2(8-9) :
110
[secondary reference]
Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859) , Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11) :
xlviii
[secondary reference]
Hooker, J.D. (1864) , Handbook of the New Zealand Flora 1 :
303
[secondary reference]
Boeckeler, J.O. (February 1871) , Die Cyperaceen des Koniglichen Herbariums zu Berlin. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 37(1) :
12
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875) , Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(79) :
10
[secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (March 1878) , Flora Australiensis 7 :
310
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis parviflora R.Br.
legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants :
126
[secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913) , Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants :
594
[secondary reference]
Domin, K. (1915) , Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85) :
455
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Scirpus dichotomus L.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus bisumbellatus Forssk.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis parviflora R.Br.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus pallescens Roxb.
legitimate
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains :
495
[secondary reference]
Eichler, Hj. (1965) , Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957) :
74
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Scirpus dichotomus L.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis diphylla ( Retz.) Vahl
legitimate
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory :
86, Fig. 82.
[secondary reference]
Kern, J.H. (1974) , Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3) :
575-576
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis diphylla ( Retz.) Vahl
legitimate
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981) , Plants of Western New South Wales :
167
[secondary reference]
common name:
Common Fringe-rush
[n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
14
[secondary reference]
Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia :
500-501
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Scirpus dichotomus L.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis diphylla ( Retz.) Vahl
legitimate
common name:
Eight day grass
[n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 :
41
[secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987) , Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26 :
25
[secondary reference]
Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3 :
298, Fig. 43K
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Scirpus dichotomus L.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis diphylla ( Retz.) Vahl
legitimate
Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region :
1075, Fig. 315G
[secondary reference]
Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4 :
378
[secondary reference]
Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994) , Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest :
303
[secondary reference]
Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2 :
332
[secondary reference]
common name:
Common Fringe-rush
[n/a]
Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000) , Cyperaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia :
265, Fig. 60, 61
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Fimbristylis dichotomum Vahl
orth. var.
orthographic variant:
Fimbristylis dichotma W.E.Cooper
orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Scirpus dichotomus L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Fimbristylis dichotoma ( L.) Vahl var. dichotoma
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Fimbristylis dichotoma ( L.) Vahl f. dichotoma
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Fimbristylis dichotoma ( L.) Vahl subsp. dichotoma
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus diphylla Retz.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis laxa Vahl
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis diphyllum Vahl
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis diphylla ( Retz.) Vahl
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis variabilis R.Br.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis stricta R.Br.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis gracilis R.Br.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis elongata R.Br.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus variabilis ( R.Br.) Poir.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus stricta Poir.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus strictus ( R.Br.) Poir.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus gracilis ( R.Br.) Poir.
nom. illeg.
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus elongata Poir.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus elongatus ( R.Br.) Poir.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis striata Labill.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis royeniana Nees
nom. illeg.
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis communis Kunth
nom. illeg.
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis polymorpha Boeckeler
nom. illeg.
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis obtusifolia Nees ex Benth.
nom. inval., pro syn.
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis tristachya Nees ex Benth.
nom. inval., pro syn.
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis gracilis Nees ex Benth.
nom. inval., pro syn.
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis diphylla var. gracilis ( R.Br.) Benth.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis diphylla ( Retz.) Vahl var. diphylla
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Scirpus gracilis ( R.Br.) Kuntze
nom. illeg.
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis diphylla f. subpubescens Domin
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis diphylla var. polystachya Domin
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis diphylla f. glabra Domin
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis diphylla f. coarctata Domin
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis diphylla ( Retz.) Vahl f. diphylla
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis annua var. diphylla ( Retz.) Kük.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis dichotoma var. B
[n/a]
APC Dist.:
WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012) , Australian Plant Census :
-
[misapplied]
misapplied to:
Fimbristylis velata R.Br.
legitimate
by Hooker, J.D. (1864) , Handbook of the New Zealand Flora 1 : 303
Brown, G.K. (December 2021) , Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2020 to 2021. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2021 :
9
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Fimbristylis sp. (Elizabeth Springs R.J.Fensham 3743)
[n/a]