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
Axonopus compressus ( Sw.) P.Beauv.
, legitimate , scientific
Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812) , Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie :
12
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Milium compressum Sw.
legitimate
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) :
276
[secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. (1952) , Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1) :
237-238
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Milium compressum Sw.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Anastrophus compressus Schltdl.
legitimate
common name:
Carpet Grass
[n/a]
Vickery, J.W. (1961) , Gramineae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 19(1) :
114-115
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Milium compressum Sw.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Paspalum compressum ( Sw.) Raspail
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Paspalum platycaulon Poir.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Paspalum platicaulon Poir.
orth. var.
common name:
Broad-leafed Carpet Grass
[n/a]
Black, G.A. (1963) , Advancing Frontiers of Plant Science :
50-55
[secondary reference]
Gledhill, D. (1966) , Cytotaxonomic revision of the Axonopus compressus (Sw.) Beauv. complex. Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana 40 :
126-127
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
38
[secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 :
31, 186
[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 :
942
[secondary reference]
common name:
Broadleaf Carpet Grass
[n/a]
Webster, R.D. (1987) , The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae) :
14-15
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Paspalum platycaulon Poir.
legitimate
Green, J.W. (20 June 1988) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 6 :
2
[taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of:
Axonopus affinis Chase
legitimate
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3 :
224, Fig. 35K
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Milium compressum Sw.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Paspalum compressum ( Sw.) Raspail
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Paspalum platycaulon Poir.
legitimate
common name:
Broadleaf Carpet Grass
[n/a]
Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993) , Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50 :
493
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Milium compressum Sw.
legitimate
common name:
Carpet Grass
[n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4 :
464
[secondary reference]
common name:
Broad-leaved Carpet Grass
[n/a]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994) , Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49 :
485
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Milium compressum Sw.
legitimate
Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994) , Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest :
310
[secondary reference]
Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004) , Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest :
567
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008) , Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4 :
164 (fig.)
[secondary reference]
common name:
Broad-leafed Carpet Grass
[n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Milium compressum Sw.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Axonopus compressus ( Sw.) P.Beauv. subsp. compressus
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Paspalum platicaulon Poir.
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Paspalum platycaulon Poir.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Paspalum platycaule F.M.Bailey
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Axonopus compressus subsp. brevipedunculatus Gledhill
legitimate
APC Dist.:
ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised)
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009) , Australian Plant Census :
-
[misapplied]
misapplied to:
Axonopus fissifolius ( Raddi) Kuhlm.
legitimate
by Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 : 31, 186