Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

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.

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This search uses an automatic wild card at the end of the query to match all endings (unless the query is in double quotes).
The query is an ordered set of search terms, so viola l. will match "Viola L." and "Viola L. sect Viola."
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You can use a % as a wild card inside the search query e.g. hakea elon% be or "hakea % var. elon% benth." to find "Hakea ceratophylla var. elongata Benth."

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Showing Paractaenum

Poaceae Barnhart

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Poaceae(fam.)
Paractaenum(gen.)

Paractaenum P.Beauv.

, legitimate

, scientific

Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie

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47, 171

[tax. nov.]

Type: Paractaenum novae-hollandiae P.Beauv.

Comment: Base name for CHAMAERAPHIS sect. EUCHAMAERAPHIS Kuntze.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3

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6

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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218

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

legitimate

Kuntze, C.E.O. in Post, T. von & Kuntze, O. (1903), Lexikon Generum Phanerogamarum

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115

[taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of:

Chamaeraphis sect. Euchamaeraphis Kuntze

nom. inval.

Hughes, D.K. (1923), Paractaenum novae-hollandiae.

Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew

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288-289

[secondary reference]

Comment: Original description emended in this publication.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1

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72

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Greek para, like; ktenion, a little comb; probably alluding to the bristly spikes"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae.

Flora of Western Australia

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245

[secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae.

Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales

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223-224

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

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49

[secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae).

Flora of Central Australia

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482

[secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae)

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146-149

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Plagiosetum Benth.

legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Paractaenum.

Flora of New South Wales

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493

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4

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94 (fig.), 99 (fig.), 319

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "from the Greek for 'little' and 'comb'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

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630

[secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census

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-

APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Plagiosetum Benth.

legitimate

taxonomic synonym:

Chamaeraphis sect. Euchamaeraphis Kuntze

nom. inval.

APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

Morrone, O., Aagesen, L., Scataglini, M.A., Salariato, D.L., Denham, S.S., Chemisquy, M.A., Sede, S.M., Giussani, L.M., Kellog, E.A. & Zuloaga, F.O. (2012), Phylogeny of the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae): integrating plastid DNA sequences and morphology into a new classification.

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349

[secondary reference]