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 Sorghum laxiflorum

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Sorghum laxiflorum F.M.Bailey

, legitimate

, scientific

Bailey, F.M. in Meston, A. (1889), Botany of the Bellenden-Ker Expedition, in Report on the Government Scientific Expedition to the Bellenden-Ker Range (Wooroonooran), North Queensland.

Queensland: Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly during the Session of 1889

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25

[tax. nov.]

Type: "7 [i.e. Mulgrave River]."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1891), Descriptions of new Australian Plants with occasional other annotations (continued).

The Victorian Naturalist

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16

[replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of:

Andropogon baileyi F.Muell.

legitimate

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

:

620, Fig. 595

[secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

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223

BHL

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

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66

[secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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250-251

[secondary reference]

Lazarides, M., Hacker, J.B. & Andrew, M.H. (29 November 1991), Taxonomy of indigenous Australian sorghums (Sorghum Moench: Andropogoneae: Poaceae).

Australian Systematic Botany

:

620, figs 1e, 6c (map)

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: Queensland: Cook District; Mulgrave River, F.M.Bailey s.n., 1.viii. 1889 (holo, BRI, isotypes, K).

nomenclatural synonym:

Andropogon baileyi F.Muell.

legitimate

Spangler, R.E. (28 June 2003), Taxonomy of Sarga, Sorghum and Vacoparis (Poaceae: Andropogoneae).

Australian Systematic Botany

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297

[basionym]

basionym of:

Vacoparis laxiflorum (F.M.Bailey) Spangler

legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census

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-

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Andropogon baileyi F.Muell.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Sorghum nitidum var. baileyi (F.Muell.) Roberty

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Vacoparis laxiflorum (F.M.Bailey) Spangler

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Sorghum baileyi Roberty

nom. inval., pro syn.

APC Comment: Treated as Vacoparis laxiflorum in Qld.
APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Andropogon baileyi F.Muell.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Sorghum nitidum var. baileyi (F.Muell.) Roberty

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Vacoparis laxiflorum (F.M.Bailey) Spangler

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Sorghum baileyi Roberty

nom. inval., pro syn.

isonym:

Sorghum laxiflorum F.M.Bailey

isonym

isonym:

Sorghum laxiflorum F.M.Bailey

isonym

APC Comment: Treated as Vacoparis laxiflorum in Qld.
APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld