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Taxon: Chloris truncata R. Br.

Genus:

Chloris

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Chloridoideae

Tribe:

Cynodonteae

Subtribe:

Eleusininae

Nomen number:

10285

Place of publication:

Prodr. 186. 1810

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

10-Feb-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

black windmill grass (Source: F NAmer) - English
creeping windmill grass (Source: Zander Ency) - English
early chloris (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
star grass (Source: Zander Ency) - English
windmill grass (Source: Websters Dict) - English
gestutztes Fingergras (Source: Zander Ency) - German

Distributional Range:

Native

Australasia

AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Queensland (s.), South Australia (e. & s.), Victoria, Western Australia (s.)]

Naturalized

Northern America

SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [South Carolina]
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California]

References:

Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen
FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.

Check other web resources for Chloris truncata R. Br. :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=10285. Accessed 3 July 2024.