Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Sporobolus virginicus
Poaceae Barnhart
Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth , legitimate, scientific
Kunth, K.S. (1829), Revision des graminees Part 5: 67 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 133 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 28 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Vilfa virginica (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate
Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4: 7 [secondary reference]
Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 43 [secondary reference]
common name: Salt-marsh Couch-grass [n/a]
Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 268 BHL [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 623 [secondary reference]
Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 348-349 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Vilfa virginica (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Podosemum virginicum (L.) Link legitimate taxonomic synonym: Agrostis littoralis Lam. legitimate misapplication: Sporobolus matrella Nees nom. illeg., nom. superfl. by Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1846), Gramineae. Plantae Preissianae 2(1): 97
Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 68 [secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 8 [secondary reference]
Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 94-95 [secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 160 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 534 [secondary reference]
common name: Sand Couch [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]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 53 [secondary reference]
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 469, Fig. 595 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate common name: Salt couch [n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 37 [secondary reference]
Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 992 [secondary reference]
common name: Marine Couch [n/a]
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]
Smith-White, A.R. (1988), Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth in coastal Australia: the reproductive behaviour and the distribution of morphological types and chromosome races. Australian Journal of Botany 36(1): 23-39 [secondary reference]
Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 182, Fig. 28D [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon legitimate common name: Marine Couch [n/a] common name: Sand Couch [n/a]
Baaijens, G.J. & Veldkamp, J.F. (1991), Sporobolus (Gramineae) in Malesia. Blumea 35(2): 445-450 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Vilfa virginica (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Podosemum virginicum (L.) Link legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth var. virginicus legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus matrella Nees nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus virginicus var. ? pallida Benth. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus virginicus var. pallidus Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon legitimate
Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Sporobolus. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1223-1225, Fig. 346D [secondary reference]
common name: Sand Couch [n/a]
Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 477-478 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate common name: Coastal Rat-tail Grass [n/a] common name: Salt Couch Grass [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Sporobolus. Flora of New South Wales 4: 525 [secondary reference]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 476, 95D [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate
Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 328-329, Fig. 110B [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Vilfa virginica (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Podosemum virginicum (L.) Link legitimate
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 572, Fig. 115i-j [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate common name: Salt-couch [n/a]
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 225 [secondary reference]
common name: Saltwater Couch [n/a]
Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997), Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands: 94-95 [secondary reference]
common name: Sand couch [n/a]
Simon, B.K. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (15 August 1999), Revision of the genus Sporobolus (Poaceae, Chloridoideae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 12(3): 409, Figs. 3H, 4F [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus matrella Nees nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon legitimate
Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Poaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 324, Fig. 78 [secondary reference]
common name: Salt-couch [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 436 [secondary reference]
common name: Salt Couch [n/a] common name: Marine Couch [n/a]
Simon, B.K. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Sporobolus. Flora of Australia 44B: 334-335, Plate 48 [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Vilfa virginica (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Vilfa matrella Nees nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus matrella Nees nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus virginicus var. pallidus Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon legitimate common name: Sand Couch [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis virginica L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Vilfa virginica (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Podosemum virginicum (L.) Link legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Podosaemum virginicum Trin. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth var. virginicus legitimate taxonomic synonym: Vilfa intermedia Trin. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Vilfa matrella Nees nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus matrella Nees nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus virginicus var. ? pallida Benth. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus virginicus var. pallidus Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus benthamii F.M.Bailey var. benthamii legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus benthami var. robustus Domin orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus benthamii var. robustus Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Sporobolus virginicus var. minor F.M.Bailey ex B.K.Simon legitimate
  • APC Comment: Sporobolus virginicus var. virginicus and S. virginicus var. minor are treated as distinct taxa in NSW.
  • APC Dist.: WA, ChI, AR, NT, SA, Qld, CSI, NSW, LHI, NI, Vic, Tas
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 380 (fig.) [secondary reference]
Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 256-257, photos 6-9 [secondary reference]
common name: Marine Couch [n/a]