Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

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Showing Festuca elatior var. loliacea

Poaceae Barnhart

, legitimate

, scientific

757

[primary reference]

153

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

legitimate

283

[secondary reference]

Comment: "This taxon was listed by A.J.Ewart in Fl. Victoria 153 (1931). He equated the variety with Festuca loliacea, although there is no evidence to suggest that Kumm. and Send. loc. cit. [i.e. Flora oder Allgemeine Botanischer Zeitung 32: 757 (1849)] had based their variety on that species. Ewart wrote "widely spread in Victoria and recorded as naturalised in 1908". It is therefore likely that F. elatior var. loliacea, as described by Ewart in Fl. Victoria, refers to the same material that he recorded in the Vict. Naturalist in 1908. See discussion under F. loliacea Huds. below [i.e. Flora of Australia 44A: 284 (2009)]."

- APC

[secondary reference]

APC Comment: Recorded by A.J.Ewart, Fl. Vic. 153 (1931) as “… widely spread in Victoria …”, but does not appear to have persisted as a naturalised plant in Australia.