Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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Poaceae Barnhart
Eragrostis Wolf , legitimate , scientific
Wolf, N.M. von (1776) , Genera Plantarum Vocabulis Characteristicis Definita
23
[tax. nov.]
Type:
Eragrostis eragrostis (L.) Wolf
Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812) , Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie
70
[secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882) , Systematic Census of Australian Plants
135
[secondary reference]
pro parte taxonomic synonym:
Poa L. legitimate
Bailey, F.M. (1913) , Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants
629
[secondary reference]
common name:
Love Grasses [n/a]
Black, J.M. (1922) , Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1
77-78
[secondary reference]
common name:
Love-grass [n/a]
Etymology:
"Greek eros , love; agrostis , grass: alluding to the elegance of the spikelets."
Black, J.M. (1943) , Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1
115-116
[secondary reference]
Etymology:
"Greek eros , love; agrostis , grass; alluding to the elegance of the spikelets"
Gardner, C.A. (1952) , Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1)
113
[secondary reference]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962) , Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains
544
[secondary reference]
Ross (1966) , Acta Botanica Neerlandica 15
157
[secondary reference]
Type:
Eragrostis minor Host.
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970) , Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
32
[secondary reference]
Koch, S.D. (1978) , Rhodora
390-403
[secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981) , An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants
1145
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales
44
[secondary reference]
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia
456-457
[secondary reference]
Lazarides, M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987) , Eragrostis. Flora of the Perth Region 2
959-960
[secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3
165-166
[secondary reference]
Brummitt, R.K. (1992) , Vascular Plant Families and Genera
135
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Diandrochloa De Winter legitimate
Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Eragrostis. Flora of the Kimberley Region
1162-1163
[secondary reference]
Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993) , Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50
471-472
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4
534
[secondary reference]
common name:
Lovegrasses [n/a]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994) , Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49
474
[secondary reference]
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994) , Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B
324-326
[secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2
560-561
[secondary reference]
Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997) , Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands
85
[secondary reference]
common name:
Love Grass [n/a]
Lazarides, M. (18 April 1997) , A revision of Eragrostis (Eragrostideae, Eleusininae, Poaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10(1)
88
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Thellungia Stapf legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Diandrochloa De Winter legitimate
Veldkamp, J.F. (2002) , Revision of Eragrostis (Gramineae, Chloridoideae) in Malesia. Blumea 47(1)
160-161
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Eragrostis sect. Pteroessa Döll legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Diandrochloa De Winter legitimate
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002) , Flora of the South West 1
416
[secondary reference]
Palmer, J., Lazarides, M., McCusker, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005) , Eragrostis. Flora of Australia 44B
346-348
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Eragrostis sect. Pteroessa Döll legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Thellungia Stapf legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Diandrochloa De Winter legitimate
common name:
Lovegrasses [n/a]
APC Dist.:
WA (native and naturalised), CoI, ChI (native and naturalised), AR, NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008) , Australian Plant Census
-
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Eragrostis sect. Pteroessa Döll legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Diandrochloa De Winter legitimate
APC Dist.:
WA (native and naturalised), CoI, ChI (native and naturalised), AR, NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008) , Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4
105 (fig.), 245-248
[secondary reference]
common name:
Love Grasses [n/a]
Etymology:
"from the Greek words 'eros' (love) and 'agrostis' (grass)"
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008) , Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3
310-311
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Thellungia Stapf legitimate
Barrett, R.L., Peterson, P.M. & Romaschenko, K. (21 August 2020) , A molecular phylogeny of Eragrostis (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Eragrostideae): making lovegrass monophyletic in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 33
465-468
[secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym:
Ectrosia R.Br. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Heterachne Benth. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Psammagrostis C.A.Gardner & C.E.Hubb. legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Eragrostis sect. Ectrosiopsis Ohwi legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Diandrochloa De Winter legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Planichloa B.K.Simon legitimate
