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 Urochloa decumbens

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Urochloa decumbens (Stapf) R.D.Webster

, legitimate

, scientific

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

:

234

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Brachiaria decumbens Stapf

legitimate

Green, J.W. (20 June 1988), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 6

:

2, 4

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Brachiaria decumbens Stapf

legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

218

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Brachiaria decumbens Stapf

legitimate

Simon, B.K. (1990), A Key to Australian Grasses

:

32

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Brachiaria decumbens Stapf

legitimate

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Urochloa.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

1239

[secondary reference]

common name:

Signal grass

[n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p.

Flora of New South Wales

:

472

[secondary reference]

common name:

Signal Grass

[n/a]

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

:

394 (fig.)

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Brachiaria decumbens Stapf

legitimate

common name:

Signal Grass

[n/a]

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Brachiaria decumbens Stapf

legitimate

pro parte misapplication: Urochloa brizantha (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) R.D.Webster legitimate by

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

: 233

APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)