Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

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Showing Agrostis scabra var. scabra

Poaceae Barnhart

, legitimate

, autonym

576

[autonym]

Comment: Although Bentham described his variety under Agrostis scabra R.Br., it remains valid under the earlier homonym, and thus legitimately establishes the autonym under the earlier homonym.

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Comment: Listed by A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 141 (1991), as the autonym established by A. scabra var. elatior. Agrostis scabra Willd. is regarded as a misapplication to A. parviflora R.Br., although the autonym has not been used in the Australian literature. While G.Bentham, Fl. Austral. 7: 576 (1878), described Agrostis scabra var. elatior under Agrostis scabra R.Br., his varietal name remains valid under the earlier homonym, and thus legitimately establishes the autonym under the earlier homonym of Willdenow.