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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Showing Cyperus polystachyos

Cyperaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Lilianae(superordo)
Poales(ordo)
Cyperaceae(fam.)
Cyperus(gen.)
polystachyos(sp.)

Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.

, legitimate

, scientific

Rottboell, C.F. (October 1772), Descriptiones Plantarum Rariorum

:

21

[tax. nov.]

Type: "K. Plukenet. Tab. 416. Fig. 6."

Rottboell, C.F. (1773), Descriptionum et Iconum Rariores et pro maxima parte novas plantas

:

39, t. XI, fig. 1

[secondary reference]

Type: "K. Plukenet. Tab. 416. Fig. 6."

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

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214

[secondary reference]

Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1816), Flore d'Oware et de Benin en Afrique 2(15)

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48

[basionym]

basionym of:

Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay.

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae

:

xlvii

[secondary reference]

Boeckeler, J.O. (March 1868), Die Cyperaceen des Koniglichen Herbariums zu Berlin.

Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde

:

477-478

BHL

[secondary reference]

Comment: Original description emended in this publication.

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7

:

261

[secondary reference]

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia.

Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia

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84

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Plants of North-Western Australia.

Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council

:

13

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

:

125, 143

[secondary reference]

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae.

Das Pflanzenreich

:

367-373

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition.

Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology

:

202

[secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

:

224

BHL

[secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

:

649-650

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

Koyama, T. (1977), The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore 30

:

149

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

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

:

13

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperacee - Cyperus, Lepidosperma, Baumea.

Flora of Central Australia

:

506, Fig, 638B

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2

:

40

[secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory.

Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

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24

[secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Cyperaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

:

880

[secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

:

327-328, Fig. 48F

[secondary reference]

common name:

Bunchy Sedge

[n/a]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

:

1055

[secondary reference]

common name:

Bunchy Sedge

[n/a]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Cyperaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

449

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

:

355

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

:

431

[nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of:

Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

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

:

303

[secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

304

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

common name:

Bunchy Flat-sedge

[n/a]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Cyperaceae.

Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia

:

249-250, Fig. 53, 57

[secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest

:

569

[secondary reference]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online

:

-

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Cyperus polystachyus Benth.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. var. polystachyos

legitimate

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6

:

-

[secondary reference]

common name:

Bunchy Sedge

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Cyperus polystachyus Benth.

orth. var.

nomenclatural synonym:

Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. var. polystachyos

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv. var. polystachyos

legitimate

nomenclatural synonym:

Pycreus polystachyos var. typicus Domin

nom. inval.

taxonomic synonym:

Cyperus polystachyos var. miser Kük.

legitimate

doubtful taxonomic synonym:

Cyperus polystachyus var. laxiflora Benth.

orth. var.

doubtful taxonomic synonym:

Cyperus polystachyos var. laxiflorus Benth.

legitimate

doubtful taxonomic synonym:

Pycreus polystachyos var. laxiflorus (Benth.) C.B.Clarke

legitimate

misapplication: Cyperus aquatilis R.Br. legitimate by

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(71)

: 270 misapplication: Cyperus congestus Vahl legitimate by

Maiden, J.H. (1904), The Flora of Norfolk Island. Part i.

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

28(4)

: 724 misapplication: Cyperus congestus Vahl legitimate by

Laing, R.M. (1915), A revised list of the Norfolk Island flora, with some notes on the species.

Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

47

: 18 misapplication: Cyperus congestus Vahl legitimate by

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae.

Das Pflanzenreich

101

: 445

APC Comment: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. var. polystachyos and Cyperus polystachyos var. laxiflorus Benth. are recognised as distinct taxa in Qld. The status of this taxon in Vic is uncertain.
APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI, NT, Qld, NSW, LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic