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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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 Cenchrus americanus

Poaceae Barnhart

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Poaceae(fam.)
Cenchrus(gen.)
americanus(sp.)

Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone

, legitimate

, scientific

Chemisquy, M.A, Giussani, L.M., Scataglini, M.A. & Kellogg, E.A. (2010), Phylogenetic studies favour the unification of Pennisetum, Cenchrus and Odontelytrum (Poaceae): a combined nuclear, plastid and morphological analysis, and nomenclatural combinations in Cenchrus.

Annals of Botany

new ser., 106(1)

:

127

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Panicum americanum L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Panicum glaucum L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br.

legitimate

Simon, B.K. (7 December 2010), New taxa, nomenclatural changes and notes on Australian grasses in the tribe Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae).

Austrobaileya

:

191

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Panicum americanum L.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Pennisetum americanum (L.) K.Schum.

nom. rej.

taxonomic synonym:

Panicum glaucum L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Alopecurus typhoides Burm.f.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Panicum lutescens Weigel

nom. inval.

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Setaria glauca (L.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Chaetochloa lutescens Weigel ex Stuntz

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Setaria lutescens (Weigel ex Stuntz) C.E.Hubb.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum typhoides (Burm.f.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb.

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Biggs, L.J. & Parker, C.M. (21 November 2013), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2012.

:

516

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br.

legitimate