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

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

• (=) Avena filiformis G. Forst.
• (≡) Deyeuxia forsteri Kunth
• (=) Lachnagrostis filiformis (G. Forst.) Trin.

Common names:

• bent grass  (Source: pers. comm.) - English
• blown grass  (Source: BSBI) - English
• common blown grass  (Source: F Victoria) - English
• fairy grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• New Zealand wind grass  (Source: NZeal J Bot) - English

Economic Importance:

• Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Tropical

• PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia [Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia]
• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand


Naturalized

Northern America

• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Querétaro]

Southern America

• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, [Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos, La Pampa, Santa Fe] Chile [Easter Island, Los Lagos, Maule, Valparaíso]

References:

1. Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961-. Flora of New Zealand. Note: = Lachnagrostis filiformis (G. Forst.) Trin.
2. Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
3. Edgar, E. 1995. New Zealand species of Deyeuxia P. Beauv. and Lachnagrostis Trin. (Gramineae: Aveneae). New Zealand J. Bot. 33:19. Note: = Lachnagrostis filiformis (G. Forst.) Trin.
4. Ellis, R. P. 1997. pers. comm. Note: re. English common names
5. Foreman, D. B. & N. G. Walsh. 1993-. Flora of Victoria.
6. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58
7. Harden, G. J., ed. 1990-1993. Flora of New South Wales.
8. Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
9. Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. Note: = Lachnagrostis filiformis (G. Forst.) Trin.
10. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
11. Nava Rojo, A. et al. 2002. Agrostis avenacea (Poaceae: Pooideae): first record for the Mexican flora. Sida 20:423-429.
12. Perelman, S. B. et al. 2001. Cross-scale vegetation patterns of flooding Pampa grasslands. J. Ecol. 89:562-577. Note: mentions
13. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
14. Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
15. Zedler, P. H. & C. Black. 2004. Exotic plant invasions in an endemic-rich habitat: The spread of an introduced Australian grass, Agrostis avenacea J. F. Gmel., in California vernal pools. Austral Ecol. 29:537-546.
16. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en la República Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47 Note: = Lachnagrostis filiformis (G. Forst.) Trin.

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=405236. Accessed 5 October 2024.