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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Showing Digitaria velutina

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Digitaria velutina (Forssk.) P.Beauv.

, legitimate

, scientific

Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie

:

51

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Phalaris velutina Forssk.

legitimate

Henrard, J.Th. (15 January 1950), Monograph of the genus Digitaria

:

776-779

[secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series

:

101

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Phalaris velutina Forssk.

legitimate

misapplication: Digitaria horizontalis Willd. legitimate by

Cross, D.O. & Vickery, J.W. (22 May 1950), List of the naturalised grasses in New South Wales.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium

1(5)

: 277

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

:

43

[secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (31 January 1984), A revision of the genus Digitaria Haller (Paniceae: Poaceae) in Australia.

:

209-210

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Phalaris velutina Forssk.

legitimate

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae)

:

69

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4

:

221 (fig.)

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Phalaris velutina Forssk.

legitimate

APC Comment: Recorded by R.D.Webster, Brunonia 6: 210 (1984), but not known to be naturalised in Australia.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Phalaris velutina Forssk.

legitimate

APC Dist.: NSW (doubtfully naturalised)