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 Phalaris coerulescens

Poaceae Barnhart

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

Phalaris coerulescens Desf.

, legitimate

, scientific

Desfontaines, R.L. (1798), Flora Atlantica 1

:

56

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Habitat in arvis Algeriae."

Ewart, A.J. (1908), Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. VIII.

The Victorian Naturalist

:

192

[secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae.

Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales

:

286-287

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Phalaris bulbosa Cav.

nom. illeg.

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales

:

131, Fig. 29c

[secondary reference]

common name:

Blue Canary Grass

[n/a]

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

:

50

[secondary reference]

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

:

36

[secondary reference]

Comment: Appears in square brackets and italics as an "erroneous record".

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

Flora of New South Wales

:

636

[secondary reference]

common name:

Blue Canary Grass

[n/a]

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

Flora of Victoria

:

467

[secondary reference]

common name:

Blue Canary-grass

[n/a]

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

:

338 (fig.)

[secondary reference]

common name:

Blue Canary Grass

[n/a]

Kodela, P.G., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Phalaris.

Flora of Australia

:

150-151

[secondary reference]

common name:

Blue Canary Grass

[n/a]

APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Parker, C.M. & Biggs, L.J. (1 May 2014), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2013.

:

59

[secondary reference]

Voshell, S.M., Baldini, R.M. & Hilu, K.W. (10 May 2016), Infrageneric treatment of Phalaris (Canary grasses, Poaceae) based on molecular phylogenetics and floret structure.

Australian Systematic Botany

:

365 APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Phalaris bulbosa Cav.

nom. illeg.

APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)