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 Chloris

Poaceae Barnhart

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

, legitimate

, scientific

Swartz, O. (1788), Nova Genera & Species Plantarum seu Prodromus

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25

[tax. nov.]

Type: (not designated).

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

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186

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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134

[secondary reference]

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

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627

[secondary reference]

Hitchcock, A.S. (20 March 1920), The genera of grasses of the United States: with special reference to the economic species.

Bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C

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187

[secondary reference]

Lectotype: Chloris cruciata (L.) Sw. [as Agrostis cruciata L.]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae.

Flora of South Australia

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83

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Greek khloros, green: alluding to the leaves."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

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130

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Greek khloros, green; alluding to the leaves"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae.

Flora of Western Australia

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216-217

[secondary reference]

common name:

Windmill-grass

[n/a]

common name:

Star-grass

[n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

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542

[secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

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60

[secondary reference]

common name:

Windmill Grass

[n/a]

Lazarides, M. (1972), A revision of Australian Chlorideae (Gramineae).

Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series

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3-23

[secondary reference]

Anderson, D.E. (1974), Brigham Young University. Science Bulletin. Biological Series 19 (2)

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1-131

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Chloropsis Hack. ex Kuntze

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

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39

[secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae).

Flora of Central Australia

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464

[secondary reference]

Varadajaran, G.S. & Gilmartin, A.J. (1983), Subgeneric Classification of Chloris Sw. (Poaceae).

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471-473

[secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

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947

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Highet, J. (26 May 1988), Re-evaluation of the characters used to distinguish Enteropogon from Chloris (Poaceae).

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217-221

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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158-159

[secondary reference]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Chloris.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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1138-1139

[secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae.

Flora of Australia

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479

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p.

Flora of New South Wales

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517-518

[secondary reference]

common name:

Windmill Grasses

[n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

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478

[secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae.

Flora of Victoria

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574

[secondary reference]

Nightingale, M.E., Lazarides, M. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Chloris.

Flora of Australia

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269-270

APC

[secondary reference]

common name:

Windmill Grasses

[n/a]

APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (native and doubtfully naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised)

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4

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85 (fig.), 100 (fig.), 182-183

[secondary reference]

common name:

Windmill Grasses

[n/a]

Etymology: "from the Greek word for 'green' and the Greek goddess for flowers"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

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181

[secondary reference]