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Taxon: Chloris ventricosa R. Br.

Genus:

Chloris

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Chloridoideae

Tribe:

Cynodonteae

Subtribe:

Eleusininae

Nomen number:

10287

Place of publication:

Prodr. 186. 1810

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

15-Oct-2001 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

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

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

(=) Chloris ventricosa var. tenuis Benth.
(-) Chloris ventricosa var. ventricosa R. Br.

Common names:

blue stargrass (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
plump windmill grass (Source: F NAmer) - English
tall chloris (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
tall stargrass (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English

Distributional Range:

Native

Australasia

AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria]

Naturalized

Northern America

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

References:

FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Foreman, D. B. & N. G. Walsh. 1993-. Flora of Victoria.
Harden, G. J., ed. 1990-1993. Flora of New South Wales.
Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. Note: mentions
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
Stanley, T. D. & E. M. Ross. 1983-1989. Flora of south-eastern Queensland.

Check other web resources for Chloris ventricosa 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=10287. Accessed 3 July 2024.