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 Ophiuros exaltatus

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Ophiuros exaltatus (L.) Kuntze

, legitimate

, scientific

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2

:

780

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Aegilops exaltata L.

legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae.

Flora of Western Australia

:

312

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Aegilops exaltata L.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Ophiuros corymbosus C.F.Gaertn.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

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320

[secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

:

222

BHL

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

35

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

:

65

[secondary reference]

Simon, B.K. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Ophiuros.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

1192, Fig. 338A

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ophiuros megaphyllus Stapf & Haines

legitimate

common name:

Canegrass

[n/a]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Poaceae.

Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia

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308, Fig. 70

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Ophiuros megaphyllus Stapf & Haines

legitimate

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Aegilops exaltata L.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Rottboellia exaltata (L.) L.f.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Mnesithea exaltata (L.) Skeels

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Rottbolla corymbosa L.f.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Rottboellia corymbosa L.f.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

taxonomic synonym:

Ophiurus corymbosa C.F.Gaertn.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Ophiuros corymbosus C.F.Gaertn.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

taxonomic synonym:

Ophiuros corymbosus (L.f.) Gaertn. var. corymbosus

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Rottboellia tongcalingii Elmer

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ophiuros megaphyllus Stapf & Haines

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ophiuros tongcalingii (Elmer) Henrard

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld