Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Poaceae Barnhart
Arrhenatherum P.Beauv. , legitimate , scientific
Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812) , Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie
55, 152, 153, t. 11, fig. 5
[tax. nov.]
Bentham, G. (March 1878) , Flora Australiensis 7
586
[secondary reference]
Niles, C.D. & Chase, A. (1925) , A bibliographic study of Beauvois' Agrostographie. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 24
174
[secondary reference]
Type:
Arrhenatherum avenaceum P.Beauv., nom. illeg.
Black, J.M. (1943) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1
104
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"From Greek arrhen , male; ather , awn; alluding to the awn of the male flower"
Gardner, C.A. (1952) , Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1)
39
[secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains
539
[secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
36
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
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
939-940
[secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3
122
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Arrhenatherum. Flora of New South Wales 4
589-590
[secondary reference]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994) , Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B
234
[secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2
448
[secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1
400
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008) , Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4
89 (fig.), 104 (fig.), 133
[secondary reference]
common name:
Oatgrass [n/a]
Etymology:
"from the Greek words for 'male' and 'awn', referring to the awned male floret."
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3
68
[secondary reference]
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Kodela, P.G., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009) , Arrhenatherum. Flora of Australia 44A
127
[secondary reference]
