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 barbata

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Chloris barbata Sw.

, legitimate

, scientific

Swartz, O. (1797), Flora Indiae Occidentalis 1

:

200

[tax. nov.]

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

:

xlviii

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1867), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(43)

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85

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1877), Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland

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10

[secondary reference]

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

:

134

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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225

[secondary reference]

Tate, R. (1890), A Handbook of the Flora of Extratropical South Australia

:

194, 267

[secondary reference]

Tate, R. in Spencer, W.B. (ed.) (March 1896), Botany.

Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia

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184

[secondary reference]

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

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628

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

370

[secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens.

Bibliotheca Botanica

:

369

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Chloris virgata Sw. legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1867), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(43)

: 85

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Chloris virgata Sw. legitimate by

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

: 134

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Chloris virgata Sw. legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

: 225

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Chloris virgata Sw. legitimate by

Tate, R. (1890), A Handbook of the Flora of Extratropical South Australia

: 194, 267

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Chloris virgata Sw. legitimate by

Tate, R. in Spencer, W.B. (ed.) (March 1896), Botany.

Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia

3

: 184

Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia.

Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia

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85

[secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae.

Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis

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11

[secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

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197

[secondary reference]

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

Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series

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9-11

[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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220

BHL

[secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

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31

[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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61

[secondary reference]

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

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

1139

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Chloris barbata f. divaricata Kuntze

legitimate

common name:

Purpletop Chloris

[n/a]

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

Flora of Australia

:

479

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Andropogon barbatus L.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

common name:

Finger Grass

[n/a]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

Atoll Research Bulletin

:

24

[secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia

:

216

[secondary reference]

common name:

Purpletop Chloris

[n/a]

common name:

Rhodes Grass

[n/a]

common name:

Windmill Grass

[n/a]

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

Flora of Australia

:

273-274, Plate 42, Figs 41E, 43A

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Andropogon barbatus L.

nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

taxonomic synonym:

Chloris inflata Link

legitimate

common name:

Purpletop Chloris

[n/a]

APC Comment: Previously treated as Chloris inflata in NT, SA and Qld. The correct name for the taxon is Australia unclear (see F.R.Fosberg, Taxon 25: 176-178, 1976 and J.T.Kartesz & K.N.Gandhi, Rhodora 94: 135-140, 1992).
APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)