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 Ectrosia

Poaceae Barnhart

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

, legitimate

, scientific

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

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185

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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135

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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632

[secondary reference]

Hubbard, C.E. (September 1938), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 34(3)

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t. 3312 pp. 1-16

[secondary reference]

Type: Ectrosia leporina R.Br.

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

Flora of Western Australia

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86,88

[secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae).

Flora of Central Australia

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460

[secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera

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338

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Planichloa B.K.Simon

legitimate

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Ectrosia.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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1155

[secondary reference]

Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Ectrosia.

Flora of Australia

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426-427

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Planichloa B.K.Simon

legitimate

APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

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297

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Planichloa B.K.Simon

legitimate

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

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465

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Eragrostis Wolf

legitimate