Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Imperata cylindrica
Poaceae Barnhart
Imperata cylindrica (L.) P.Beauv. , legitimate, scientific
Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 8, 165, 177, t. v., fig. 1, [comb. nov.]
basionym: Lagurus cylindricus L. legitimate
Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 257 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Lagurus cylindricus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Saccharum cylindricum (L.) Lam. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Imperata arundinacea Cirillo nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 54 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Imperata arundinacea Cirillo nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 5 [secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 312-314 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Lagurus cylindricus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Imperata arundinacea Cirillo nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 19(1): 24-25 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Lagurus cylindricus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Saccharum cylindricum (L.) Lam. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Imperata arundinacea Cirillo nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 47 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 34 [secondary reference]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 64 [secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 244-245 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Lagurus cylindricus L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Imperata cylindrica var. major (Nees) C.E.Hubb. legitimate common name: Blady Grass [n/a]
Simon, B.K. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Imperata. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1179, Fig. 334B [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Imperata cylindrica var. major (Nees) C.E.Hubb. legitimate common name: Blady grass [n/a]
Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 503, 504 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Lagurus cylindricus L. legitimate common name: Lalang [n/a] common name: Blady Grass [n/a]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 618, Fig. 125a-b [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Imperata cylindrica var. major (Nees) C.E.Hubb. legitimate common name: Kunai in Papua New Guinea [n/a] common name: Blady Grass [n/a]
Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Poaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 299-300, Fig. 77 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Imperata cylindrica var. major (Nees) C.E.Hubb. legitimate common name: Blady Grass [n/a]
Swarbrick, J.T. & Hart, R. (2000), Environmental weeds of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) and their management. Plant Protection Quarterly 16(2): 54-56 [secondary reference]
common name: blady grass [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Lagurus cylindricus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Saccharum cylindricum (L.) Lam. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Imperata cylindrica (L.) P.Beauv. var. cylindrica legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Lagarus cylindricus Du Puy & Telford orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Imperata arundinacea Cirillo nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Imperata cylindrica Raeusch. nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Imperata koenigii var. major Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Imperata cylindrica var. major (Nees) C.E.Hubb. legitimate misapplication: Imperata arundinacea Cirillo nom. illeg., nom. superfl. by Maiden, J.H. (1898), Observations on the vegetation of Lord Howe Island. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23(2): 143 misapplication: Imperata arundinacea Cirillo nom. illeg., nom. superfl. by Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 258 misapplication: Imperata arundinacea Cirillo nom. illeg., nom. superfl. by Oliver, W.R.B. (1917), The vegetation and flora of Lord Howe Island. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 49: 156
  • APC Comment: Treated as Imperata cylindrica var. major in NSW, LHI and Tas.
  • APC Dist.: WA, CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI (naturalised), ACT, Vic, Tas