Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Uralepis
Poaceae Barnhart
Uralepis Nutt. , legitimate, scientific
Nuttall, T. (1818), The Genera of North American Plants 1: 62 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not designated).
  • Etymology: "From οὐρά, cauda, and λεπις, squama, palea or gluma, intended to indicate the singularly caudate appearance of the outer corolla valve."
Rafinesque, C.S. (January 1819), American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review 4(3): 190 [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Uralepsis Nutt. orth. var.
Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(3): 247 BHL [secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (24 December 1881), Notes on Gramineae. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 19: 110 [basionym]
basionym of: Triodia sect. Uralepis (Nutt.) Benth. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 134 [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Diplachne P.Beauv. legitimate
Hitchcock, A.S. (20 March 1920), The genera of grasses of the United States: with special reference to the economic species. Bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C 772: 76 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Type: Uralepis purpurea (Walter) Nutt.
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Uralepsis Nutt. orth. var.
  • APC Comment: An American taxon recorded in an Australian context as the parent of Uralepis drummondii Steud. and U. fusca (L.) Steud., and as the basionym of Triodia sect. Uralepis (Nutt.) Benth. Australian taxa formerly placed in Uralepis are now placed in Diplachne P.Beauv.