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
Echinochloa colona ( L.) Link
, legitimate , scientific
Link, J.H.F. (1833) , Hortus Regius Botanicus Berolinensis 2 :
209
[comb. nov.]
basionym:
Panicum colonum L.
legitimate
Hughes, D.K. (1923) , The genus Panicum of the Flora Australiensis. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1923(9) :
319
[secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. (1925) , List of the naturalised plants of extra-tropical Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 11(8) :
70
[secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. (1930) , Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis :
6
[secondary reference]
Gardner, C.A. (1952) , Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1) :
254
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum colonum 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 :
526
[secondary reference]
common name:
Awnless Barnyard Grass
[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) :
220
[secondary reference]
Vickery, J.W. (1975) , Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2) :
206-208
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum colonum L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Milium colonum ( L.) Moench
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Oplismenus colonus ( L.) Kunth
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Oplismenus crus-galli var. colonum ( L.) Coss. & Durieu
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. colona ( L.) Honda
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum ( L.) Makino & Nemoto
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Panicum zonale Guss.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Oplismenus colonus var. zonalis ( Guss.) Schrad.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Echinochloa zonalis ( Guss.) Parl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Panicum colonum var. zonale ( Guss.) L.H.Dewey
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Echinochloa colona var. zonalis Wooton & Standl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Echinochloa colona f. zonalis ( Guss.) Wiegand
legitimate
common name:
River Grass
[n/a]
common name:
Swamp Grass
[n/a]
common name:
Awnless Barnyard Grass
[n/a]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981) , Plants of Western New South Wales :
88-89
[secondary reference]
common name:
Barnyard Grass
[n/a]
common name:
Water Grass
[n/a]
common name:
Jungle Rice
[n/a]
common name:
River Grass
[n/a]
common name:
Swamp Grass
[n/a]
common name:
Awnless Barnyard Grass
[n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981) , Plants of New South Wales :
43
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum colonum L.
legitimate
Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981) , Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia :
476-477
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum colonum L.
legitimate
common name:
river grass
[n/a]
common name:
swamp grass
[n/a]
common name:
Awnless barnyard grass
[n/a]
Green, J.W. (1985) , Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2 :
32
[secondary reference]
Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986) , List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4) :
141
[secondary reference]
common name:
Awnless barnyard grass
[n/a]
Dunlop, C.R. (1987) , Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26 :
62
[secondary reference]
Webster, R.D. (1987) , The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae) :
72-73
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum colonum L.
legitimate
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989) , Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3 :
204-206, Fig. 32H
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum colonum L.
legitimate
common name:
Awnless Barnyard Grass
[n/a]
Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992) , Echinochloa. Flora of the Kimberley Region :
1152
[secondary reference]
common name:
Barnyard grass
[n/a]
common name:
Awnless Barnyard grass
[n/a]
Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993) , Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50 :
485
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum colonum L.
legitimate
Jacobs, S.W.L. & James, T.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993) , Echinochloa. Flora of New South Wales 4 :
475
[secondary reference]
common name:
Awnless Barnyard Grass
[n/a]
Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994) , Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest :
310
[secondary reference]
Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994) , Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2 :
594, Fig. 120e-f
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum colonum L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. colona ( L.) Honda
legitimate
common name:
Awnless Barnyard-grass
[n/a]
Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996) , Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia :
218
[secondary reference]
common name:
Barnyard Grass
[n/a]
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 :
289, Fig. 71
[secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008) , Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4 :
226 (fig.)
[secondary reference]
common name:
Awnless Barnyard Grass
[n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009) , Australian Plant Census :
-
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Echinochloa colonum Buse
orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum colonum L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Oplismenus colonus ( L.) Kunth
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. colona ( L.) Honda
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Oplismenus colonum Vickery
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Oplismenus colonum var. zonalis Vickery
orth. var.
APC Comment:
See P.W.Michael, Taxon 58: 1366-1368 (2009) for discussion as to the correct form of the specific epithet.
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), Vic (naturalised)
Michael, P.W. (2009) , Echinochloa colona versus "Echinochloa colonum" (Poaceae). Taxon 58(4) :
1366-1367
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Echinochloa colonum Buse
orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum colonum L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Oplismenus colonus ( L.) Kunth
legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018) , Australian Plant Census :
-
APC
[secondary reference]
orthographic variant:
Echinochloa colonum Buse
orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum colonum L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Milium colonum ( L.) Moench
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Oplismenus colonus ( L.) Kunth
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Oplismenus crus-galli var. colonum ( L.) Coss. & Durieu
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. colona ( L.) Honda
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum ( L.) Makino & Nemoto
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. colonum Vickery
orth. var.
nomenclatural synonym:
Oplismenus colonum Vickery
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Panicum zonale Guss.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Oplismenus colonus var. zonalis ( Guss.) Schrad.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Echinochloa zonalis ( Guss.) Parl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Panicum colonum var. zonale ( Guss.) L.H.Dewey
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Echinochloa colona var. zonalis Wooton & Standl.
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Echinochloa colona f. zonalis ( Guss.) Wiegand
legitimate
taxonomic synonym:
Echinochloa colonum f. zonalis Vickery
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Echinochloa colonum var. zonalis Vickery
orth. var.
taxonomic synonym:
Oplismenus colonum var. zonalis Vickery
orth. var.
APC Dist.:
WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), Vic (naturalised)
Crespo, M.B., Alonso, M.A., Martínez-Azorín, M. & Sáez, L. (4 August 2020) , Miscellaneous notes on nomenclature and taxonomy of some Old World names in tribe Paniceae (Panicoideae, Poaceae). Phytotaxa 454(4) :
245-246
[secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum colonum L.
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Milium colonum ( L.) Moench
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Oplismenus colonus ( L.) Kunth
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Oplismenus crus-galli var. colonum ( L.) Coss. & Durieu
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. colona ( L.) Honda
legitimate
nomenclatural synonym:
Panicum crus-galli subsp. colonum ( L.) Makino & Nemoto
legitimate