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
Sporobolus virginicus ( L.) Kunth
, legitimate , scientific
Kunth, K.S. (1829) , Revision des graminees Part 5 :
67
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants :
133
[secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1888) , A few Queensland grasses :
28
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Vilfa virginica ( L.) P.Beauv.
legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4 :
7
[secondary reference]
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:
Salt-marsh Couch-grass
[n/a]
Rodway, L. (1903) , The Tasmanian Flora :
268
[secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913) , Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants :
623
[secondary reference]
Domin, K. (1915) , Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85) :
348-349
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Vilfa virginica ( L.) P.Beauv.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Podosemum virginicum ( L.) Link
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Agrostis littoralis Lam.
legitimate
misapplication:
Sporobolus matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
by Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1846) , Gramineae. Plantae Preissianae 2(1) : 97
Black, J.M. (1922) , Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1 :
68
[secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. (1930) , Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis :
8
[secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1943) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1 :
94-95
[secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. (1952) , Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1) :
160
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains :
534
[secondary reference]
common name:
Sand Couch
[n/a]
Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972) , Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4) :
223
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
53
[secondary reference]
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia :
469, Fig. 595
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
common name:
Salt couch
[n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 :
37
[secondary reference]
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 2 :
992
[secondary reference]
common name:
Marine Couch
[n/a]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987) , Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26 :
67
[secondary reference]
Smith-White, A.R. (1988) , Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth in coastal Australia: the reproductive behaviour and the distribution of morphological types and chromosome races. Australian Journal of Botany 36(1) :
23-39
[secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3 :
182, Fig. 28D
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon
legitimate
common name:
Marine Couch
[n/a]
common name:
Sand Couch
[n/a]
Baaijens, G.J. & Veldkamp, J.F. (1991) , Sporobolus (Gramineae) in Malesia. Blumea 35(2) :
445-450
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Vilfa virginica ( L.) P.Beauv.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Podosemum virginicum ( L.) Link
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus ( L.) Kunth var. virginicus
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. ? pallida Benth.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. pallidus Benth.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey
nom. inval., nom. nud.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus Domin
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon
legitimate
Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Sporobolus. Flora of the Kimberley Region :
1223-1225, Fig. 346D
[secondary reference]
common name:
Sand Couch
[n/a]
Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993) , Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50 :
477-478
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
common name:
Coastal Rat-tail Grass
[n/a]
common name:
Salt Couch Grass
[n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Sporobolus. Flora of New South Wales 4 :
525
[secondary reference]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994) , Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49 :
476, 95D
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994) , Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B :
328-329, Fig. 110B
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Vilfa virginica ( L.) P.Beauv.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Podosemum virginicum ( L.) Link
legitimate
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2 :
572, Fig. 115i-j
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
common name:
Salt-couch
[n/a]
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996) , Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia :
225
[secondary reference]
common name:
Saltwater Couch
[n/a]
Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997) , Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands :
94-95
[secondary reference]
common name:
Sand couch
[n/a]
Simon, B.K. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (15 August 1999) , Revision of the genus Sporobolus (Poaceae, Chloridoideae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 12(3) :
409, Figs. 3H, 4F
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus Domin
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon
legitimate
Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000) , Poaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia :
324, Fig. 78
[secondary reference]
common name:
Salt-couch
[n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1 :
436
[secondary reference]
common name:
Salt Couch
[n/a]
common name:
Marine Couch
[n/a]
Simon, B.K. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005) , Sporobolus. Flora of Australia 44B :
334-335, Plate 48
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Vilfa virginica ( L.) P.Beauv.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Vilfa matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. pallidus Benth.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus Domin
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon
legitimate
common name:
Sand Couch
[n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Agrostis virginica L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Vilfa virginica ( L.) P.Beauv.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Podosemum virginicum ( L.) Link
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Podosaemum virginicum Trin.
orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus ( L.) Kunth var. virginicus
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Vilfa intermedia Trin.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Vilfa matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus matrella Nees
nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. ? pallida Benth.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. pallidus Benth.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey
nom. inval., nom. nud.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey
nom. inval., nom. nud.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus benthamii F.M.Bailey var. benthamii
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus benthami var. robustus Domin
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus Domin
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon
legitimate
APC Comment:
Sporobolus virginicus var. virginicus and S. virginicus var. minor are treated as distinct taxa in NSW.
APC Dist.:
WA, ChI, AR, NT, SA, Qld, CSI, NSW, LHI, NI, Vic, Tas
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008) , Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4 :
380 (fig.)
[secondary reference]
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 :
256-257, photos 6-9
[secondary reference]
common name:
Marine Couch
[n/a]