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 leporina

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Ectrosia leporina R.Br.

, 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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186

[tax. nov.]

Type: (T.) v.v.

Bailey, F.M. (1877), Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland

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11

[secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

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633-634

BHL

[secondary reference]

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

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135

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses

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13

[secondary reference]

common name:

Hare's-tail Grass

[n/a]

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species

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16

[secondary reference]

common name:

Hare's-tail grass

[n/a]

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

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632

[secondary reference]

common name:

Hare's-tail Grass

[n/a]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

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408-409

[secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae.

Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis

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10

[secondary reference]

Hubbard, C.E. (December 1936), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 34(1)

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subt. 3312 pp. 8-12

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: Coen River, Brown 6246 (type)

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]

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

Flora of Central Australia

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460, Fig. 582

[secondary reference]

common name:

Hare's-foot grass

[n/a]

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

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33

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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1156

[secondary reference]

common name:

Hare's foot grass

[n/a]

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

Flora of Australia

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428

[secondary reference]

common name:

Hares Foot Grass

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Ectrosia leporina R.Br. var. leporina

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ectrosia leporina var. micrantha Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ectrosia leporina var. spadicea (R.Br.) Domin

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ectrosia leporina var. pauciflora C.E.Hubb.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Ectrosia leporina var. longiglumis C.E.Hubb.

legitimate

APC Comment: Ectrosia leporina var. leporina and E. leporina var. micrantha are recognised as distinct taxa in WA.
APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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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471

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: "AUSTRALIA: Queensland, Coen River, Carpentaria, 7 Nov. 1802, R.Brown [Bennett No. 6246] (first-step lecto, designated by C. E. Hubbard, Hooker’s Icon Pl. 34: 9, t. 3312 (1936; no herbarium indicated); second-step lectotype, designated here: BM 000991664 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)]; isolecto: BM 000991660 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)], BM 000991661 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)], BM 000991662 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)], CANB 378502!, E 00386886 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)], E 00386887 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)], FI 012539 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)], K 000907190 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)], K 000907192 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)], K 000907193 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)], MPU 027556 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)], NSW 392922!)."

Text: "Hubbard (1936) cited the type of the name Ectrosia leporina as ‘Coen River, Brown 6246 (type)’, but did not specify a herbarium where the type is held. This is here treated as effective lectotypification by Hubbard, in accordance with ICN Art. 7.11 (Turland et al. 2018). Original mater[i]al of this name is held at in several herbaria, and second-step lectotypification is, hereby, effected, in accordance with ICN Art. 9.17."

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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471

[basionym]

basionym of:

Eragrostis leporina (R.Br.) R.L.Barrett & P.M.Peterson

legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (24 June 2021), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2020.

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9, 10

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Eragrostis leporina (R.Br.) R.L.Barrett & P.M.Peterson

legitimate