Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.
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 :
-
APC
[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