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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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
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You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Cenchrus purpurascens

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Cenchrus purpurascens Thunb.

, legitimate

, scientific

Thunberg, C.P. (1794), Botanical observations on the Flora Japonica.

Transactions of the Linnean Society of London

:

329

[tax. nov.]

Simon, B.K. (7 December 2010), New taxa, nomenclatural changes and notes on Australian grasses in the tribe Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae).

Austrobaileya

:

191

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum alopecuroides (L.) Spreng.

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Alopecurus hordeiformis L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Panicum alopecuroides L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Panicum hordeiforme (L.) Thunb.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum compressum R.Br.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Panicum compressum (R.Br.) Poir.

nom. illeg.

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum hordeiforme (L.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum alopecuroides (L.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Setaria compressa (R.Br.) Kunth

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gymnithrix compressa Brongn.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Gymnotrix compressa (R.Br.) Brongn.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cenchrus compressus (R.Br.) Morrone

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic (naturalised)

Veldkamp, J.F. (2014), A revision of Cenchrus incl. Pennisetum (Gramineae) in Malesia with some general nomenclatural notes.

:

70

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Panicum alopecuroides L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum compressum R.Br.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum alopecuroides (L.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Setaria compressa (R.Br.) Kunth

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gymnotrix compressa (R.Br.) Brongn.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cenchrus compressus (R.Br.) Morrone

legitimate

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Panicum alopecuroides L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Alopecurus hordeiformis L.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Panicum hordeiforme (L.) Thunb.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum compressum R.Br.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Panicum compressum (R.Br.) Poir.

nom. illeg.

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum japonicum Trin.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum alopecuroides (L.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Pennisetum hordeiforme (L.) Spreng.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Setaria compressa (R.Br.) Kunth

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gymnotrix compressa (R.Br.) Brongn.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Gymnithrix compressa Brongn.

orth. var.

taxonomic synonym:

Gymnotrix japonica (Trin.) Kunth

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Cenchrus compressus (R.Br.) Morrone

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic (naturalised)

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