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 macrospermum

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Sorghum macrospermum E.D.Garber

, legitimate

, scientific

Garber, E.D. (1950), University of California Publications in Botany 23

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323

[tax. nov.]

Type: "The type specimen (Herbarium, University of California 753385) was grown in Berkeley, California, in the spring of 1948, from seed collected by W. Hartley in 1947 near Port Darwin."

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]

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

Australian Systematic Botany

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623, figs 2j-l, 6d (map)

[secondary reference]

Type: Northern Territory: Darwin and Gulf District; Univ. Calif. Herb. no. 753385, specimen cultivated in 1948 from seed collected by W. Hartley 'near Darwin' in 1947 (holo, UC; iso, CANB).

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 macrospermum (E.D.Garber) Spangler

legitimate

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

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Vacoparis macrospermum (E.D.Garber) Spangler

legitimate

APC Dist.: NT