Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Eragrostis divergens
Poaceae Barnhart
Eragrostis divergens R.L.Barrett & P.M.Peterson , legitimate, scientific
Barrett, R.L., Peterson, P.M. & Romaschenko, K. (21 August 2020), A molecular phylogeny of Eragrostis (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Eragrostideae): making lovegrass monophyletic in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 33: 471 [nom. nov.]
replaced synonym: Ectrosia laxa S.T.Blake legitimate
  • Etymology: "The replacement epithet refers to the diverging lemmas and awns at the spikelet apex."
  • Text: "The epithet ‘laxa’ is not available in Eragrostis because it is preoccupied by Eragrostis laxa (Baker 1877)."