Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Poaceae Barnhart
Leptochloa P.Beauv. , legitimate , scientific
Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812) , Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie
71
[tax. nov.]
Steudel, E.G. von (1840) , Nomenclator Botanicus Edn. 2, 2(8)
30
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants
134
[taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of:
Eleusine Gaertn. legitimate
Bailey, F.M. (1913) , Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants
628
[secondary reference]
Nash, G.V. in Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913) , Gramineae. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1
229
[secondary reference]
Lectotype:
Leptochloa virgata (L.) P.Beauv.
Black, J.M. (1922) , Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1
85
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"Greek leptos , slender; khloe , grass."
Black, J.M. (1943) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1
134
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"Greek leptos , slender; khloe , grass"
Gardner, C.A. (1952) , Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1)
211
[secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains
543
[secondary reference]
Blake, S.T. (1972) , Plinthanthesis and Danthonia and a review of the Australian species of Leptochloa (Gramineae). Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium 14
5-19
[secondary reference]
Lazarides, M. (30 December 1980) , The genus Leptochloa Beauv. (Poaceae, Eragrostideae) in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Brunonia 3(2)
247-269
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
47
[secondary reference]
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia
462
[secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3
173
[secondary reference]
Brummitt, R.K. (1992) , Vascular Plant Families and Genera
142, 364
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Rabdochloa P.Beauv. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Diplachne P.Beauv. legitimate
Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Leptochloa. Flora of the Kimberley Region
1185
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4
529
[secondary reference]
Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000) , Poaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia
305-306
[secondary reference]
Nightingale, M.E., Weiller, C.M. & Lazarides, M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005) , Leptochloa. Flora of Australia 44B
439-441
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Diplachne P.Beauv. legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008) , Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4
100 (fig.), 293
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"from the Greek words for 'slender' and 'grass'."
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3
482
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Diplachne P.Beauv. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011) , Australian Plant Census
-
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Rabdochloa P.Beauv. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Diplachne P.Beauv. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Rhabdochloa Kunth orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Sieglingia sect. Diplachna Kuntze orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Sieglingia sect. Diplachne (Kuntze legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016) , Australian Plant Census
-
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Leptocloa C.A.Gardner orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Rabdochloa P.Beauv. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Rhabdochloa Kunth orth. var.
APC Dist.:
WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW
