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 nitidum

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Sorghum nitidum (Vahl) Pers.

, legitimate

, scientific

Persoon, C.H. (1805), Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum 1

:

101

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Holcus nitidus Vahl

legitimate

Hitchcock, A.S. (1936), Botanical results of the Archbold Expedition No. 1: Papua grasses collected by L.J.Brass.

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129

[secondary reference]

Hubbard, C.E. (September 1938), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 34(3)

:

sub.t. 3364, p. 5

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Holcus nitidus Vahl

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Sorghum serratum var. nitidum (Spreng.) Domin

legitimate

Roberty, G.E. (July 1960), Monographie systématique des Andropogonées du globe.

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300-301

[secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae.

Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series

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33

[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

:

625, figs 2m, 6a (map)

[secondary reference]

Type: 'Hab. in India orientalis' (holo, ?C, not seen).

nomenclatural synonym:

Holcus nitidus Vahl

legitimate

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

Australian Systematic Botany

:

296

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Holcus nitidus Vahl

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld

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

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Holcus nitidus Vahl

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Anatherum nitidum (Vahl) Spreng.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Sorghum serratum var. nitidum (Spreng.) Domin

legitimate

APC Dist.: Qld