Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Heteropogon contortus
Poaceae Barnhart
Heteropogon contortus (L.) P.Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. , legitimate, scientific
Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1817), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 2: 836 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Andropogon contortus L. legitimate
Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 16 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon contortus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon hirtus Pers. legitimate common name: Bunch Spear Grass [n/a]
Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 23 [secondary reference]
common name: Bunch spear grass [n/a]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 619 [secondary reference]
common name: Bunch Spear Grass [n/a]
Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 276 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon contortus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon hirtus Pers. legitimate
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: 320 [secondary reference]
Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 194 [secondary reference]
Roberty, G.E. (July 1960), Monographie systématique des Andropogonées du globe. Boissiera 9: 138-141 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon contortus L. legitimate
Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 19(1): 58 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon contortus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon hirtus Pers. legitimate common name: Bunch Spear Grass [n/a]
Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 222 BHL [secondary reference]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 109 [secondary reference]
common name: Bunch Speargrass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 46 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon hirtus Pers. legitimate
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 494, Fig. 628 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon contortus L. legitimate common name: Bunch spear grass [n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 34 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 64 [secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 265, Fig, 40F [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon contortus L. legitimate common name: Black Speargrass [n/a] common name: Bunch Speargrass [n/a]
Simon, B.K. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Heteropogon. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1179, Fig. 334A [secondary reference]
common name: Black Speargrass [n/a] common name: Bunch Speargrass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 447, pl. 26 [secondary reference]
common name: Bunch Speargrass [n/a]
Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 310 [secondary reference]
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 221 [secondary reference]
common name: Black Speargrass [n/a] common name: Bunch Speargrass [n/a]
Williams, K.A.W. (1999), Native Plants of Queensland 4: 226 [secondary reference]
common name: Spear Grass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 273 (fig.) [secondary reference]
common name: Bunch Speargrass [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Andropogon contortum L. orth. var. orthographic variant: Andropogon brownei Kunth orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon contortus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon contortus var. genuinus Hack. nom. inval. nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon contortus L. var. contortus legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon allionii Lam. & DC. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon glaber Pers. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon hirtus Pers. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon allionii (Lam. & DC.) Roem. & Schult. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon polystachyos Roxb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon polystachyus (Roxb.) Schult. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon polystachyus (Roxb.) Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon brownii Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon firmus J.Presl legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon roxburghii Arn. ex Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon bellardi Bubani nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon contortus var. glaber (Pers.) Hack. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon contortus subvar. roxburghii (Arn. ex Nees) Hack. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon contortus subvar. roxburghii (Arn. ex Nees) Hack. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Andropogon contortus var. glaber (Pers.) Hack. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon contortus subvar. roxburghii (Arn. ex Nees) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Heteropogon contortus var. genuinus Domin nom. inval. misapplication: Andropogon striatus Klein ex Willd. legitimate by Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 201
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Barker, R.M. & Lang, P.J. (10 July 2012), Name changes associated with the South Australian census of vascular plants for the calendar year 2011. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 25: 102 [secondary reference]
common name: Black speargrass [n/a]