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.
Poaceae Barnhart
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 8(2) :
191
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Pennisetum glaucum ( L.) R.Br.
legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011) , Australian Plant Census :
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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. Nuytsia 23 :
516
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Pennisetum glaucum ( L.) R.Br.
legitimate