Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Echinochloa muricata
Poaceae Barnhart
Echinochloa muricata (P.Beauv.) Fernald , legitimate, scientific
Fernald, M.L. (1915), Rhodora: 106 [comb. nov.]
basionym: Setaria muricata P.Beauv. legitimate
Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Echinochloa. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1154 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Echinochloa microstachya (Wiegand) Rydb. legitimate common name: Prickly Barnyard grass [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Panicum muricatum Michx. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Setaria muricata P.Beauv. legitimate
  • APC Comment: Listed by A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 1087 (1991) as the parent of the name Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya. The variety is treated here at specific rank (see E. microstachya), and E. muricata sens. str. is not considered to occur in Australia.