Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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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.
Poaceae Barnhart
Brachyachne ( Benth.) Stapf
, legitimate , scientific
Stapf, O. in Oliver, D., Thiselton Dyer, W.T., Prain, D. & Hill, A.W. (ed.) (1 July 1917) , Gramineae. Flora of Tropical Africa 9(1) :
20
[comb. et stat. nov.]
basionym:
Cynodon sect. Brachyachne Benth. & Hook.f.
legitimate
Stapf in Prain only mentions the genus in the key, however, the combination is made by indirect reference to the basionym.
Reference Note:
in clavis
Stapf, O. (June 1922) , Brachyachne fulva, Stapf. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 31 :
sub t. 3099
[secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. & Hubbard, C.E. (September 1938) , Hooker's Icones Plantarum 34(3) :
sub.t. 3362, p. 2
[secondary reference]
Type:
Brachyachne convergens (F.Muell.) Stapf
Black, J.M. (1943) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1 :
130
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"Greek brakhys , short; akhne , a glume; the flowering glume is shorter than the 2 outer glumes"
Lazarides, M. (1972) , A revision of Australian Chlorideae (Gramineae). Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series 5 :
41-48
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Cynodon sect. Brachyachne Benth. & Hook.f.
legitimate
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
38
[secondary reference]
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia :
466
[secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3 :
158
[secondary reference]
Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Brachyachne. Flora of the Kimberley Region :
1131
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Brachyachne. Flora of New South Wales 4 :
522-523
[secondary reference]
common name:
Native Couch
[n/a]
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 :
282
[secondary reference]
Nightingale, M.E., Lazarides, M. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005) , Brachyachne. Flora of Australia 44B :
294
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Cynodon sect. Brachyachne Benth. & Hook.f.
legitimate
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008) , Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4 :
93 (fig.), 170
[secondary reference]
common name:
Native Couch
[n/a]
Etymology:
"from the Greek words for 'short' and 'glumes', alluding to the short lemmas."
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3 :
117
[secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010) , Australian Plant Census :
-
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Cynodon sect. Brachyachne Benth. & Hook.f.
legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021) , Australian Plant Census :
-
[taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of:
Cynodon Rich.
nom. cons.
Albrecht, D.E. & McLay, T.G.B. (2 December 2022) , A new species of Brachyachne (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae) from semi-arid Northern Territory and Western Australia, and additional notes on the genus. Nuytsia 33 :
272-273
[secondary reference]