Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Tragus australianus
Poaceae Barnhart
Tragus australianus S.T.Blake , legitimate, scientific
Blake, S.T. (1 June 1941), Studies on Queensland grasses, II. University of Queensland, Department of Biology, Papers 1(18): 12-16 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Noondoo, near Dirranbandi, on sand in Callitris Forest. Also on heavier soils, ca. 550 ft., March 4th, 1936, Blake 10660 (type);"
Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 65, Fig. 67 [secondary reference]
common name: Bur Grass [n/a]
Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 185, 187, Pl. 54A [secondary reference]
misapplication: Tragus racemosus (L.) All. legitimate by Allioni, C. (1785), Flora Pedemontana 2: 241 common name: Burr Grass [n/a]
  • Comment: Gardner indicates that Tragus racemosus was misapplied to Tragus australianus by G.Bentham, Fl. Austral. 7: 507 (1878), but the name accepted by Bentham was actually Lappago racemosa.
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 519-520 [secondary reference]
common name: Small Burr Grass [n/a]
Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 223 BHL [secondary reference]
Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 305-306 [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Tragus australiensis C.A.Gardner orth. var. misapplication: Lappago racemosa (L.) Honck. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 506-507 misapplication: Tragus racemosus (L.) All. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora: 635 misapplication: Tragus racemosus (L.) All. legitimate by Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales: 475 misapplication: Lappago racemosa (L.) Honck. legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1896), Useful Australian plants. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 7(3): 129-130 misapplication: Lappago racemosa (L.) Honck. legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1898), A manual of the grasses of New South Wales: 64-65 misapplication: Tragus racemosus (L.) All. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1846 misapplication: Tragus racemosus (L.) All. legitimate by Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 283 misapplication: Tragus racemosus (L.) All. legitimate by Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1916), A Census of New South Wales Plants: 15 misapplication: Tragus racemosus (L.) All. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 56 misapplication: Tragus racemosus (L.) All. legitimate by Morris, P.F. in Ewart, A.J. (1931), Gramineae. Flora of Victoria: 118, Fig. 36 common name: Small Burr Grass [n/a]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 149 [secondary reference]
common name: Sago Burr Grass [n/a] common name: Small Burr Grass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 55 [secondary reference]
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 470, Fig. 598 [secondary reference]
common name: Small burr-grass [n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 38 [secondary reference]
Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 142 [secondary reference]
common name: Small burrgrass [n/a]
Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Gramineae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 1957-1958 [secondary reference]
misapplication: Lappago racemosa (L.) Honck. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 506-507
  • Comment: Jessop indicates that Tragus racemosus was misapplied to Tragus australianus by G.Bentham, Fl. Austral. 7: 507 (1878), but the name accepted by Bentham was actually Lappago racemosa.
Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 67 [secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 186, Fig. 29D [secondary reference]
common name: Tickgrass [n/a] common name: Small Burrgrass [n/a]
Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Tragus. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1228, Fig. 346E [secondary reference]
common name: Tickgrass [n/a] common name: Small Burrgrass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 506, pl. 28 [secondary reference]
common name: Small Burrgrass [n/a]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 580-581, Fig. 117a-b [secondary reference]
misapplication: Lappago racemosa (L.) Honck. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 506-507 common name: Small Burr-grass [n/a]
  • Comment: Walsh indicates that Tragus racemosus was misapplied to Tragus australianus by G.Bentham, Fl. Austral. 7: 507 (1878), but the name accepted by Bentham was actually Lappago racemosa.
Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Tragus. Flora of Australia 44B: 268-269, Plate 39, Fig. 40A-F APC [secondary reference]
misapplication: Lappago racemosa (L.) Honck. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 506-507 misapplication: Tragus racemosus (L.) All. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1883), The plants indigenous around Sharks Bay and its vicinity. Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 23 misapplication: Lappago racemosa (L.) Honck. legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1898), A manual of the grasses of New South Wales: 64-65 misapplication: Tragus heptoneuron Clayton legitimate by Anton, A.M. (14 July 1981), The genus Tragus (Gramineae). Kew Bulletin 36(1): 58, 60 common name: Tickgrass [n/a] common name: Small Burrgrass [n/a] common name: Burr Grass [n/a]
  • APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT (naturalised), Vic
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 386-387 (fig.) [secondary reference]
common name: Small Burr Grass [n/a]