Eragrostis carolinensis Jedwabn.
First published in Bot. Arch. 5: 198 (1924)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is N. & E. Australia to Pacific. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Caroline Is., Easter Is., Line Is., New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Western Australia
Introduced into:
Cook Is.
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Eragrostis cumingii var. novoguineensis Jansen in Reinwardtia 2: 271 (1953)
- Eragrostis elongata var. festucoides Domin in Biblioth. Bot. 20(85): 400 (1915)
- Eragrostis zeylanica var. glomerata Nees in Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 2: 102 (1850), nom. nud.
Publications
An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:
- Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Eragrostis spartinoides.]
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Clayton, W.D. & Snow, N. (2010). A key to Pacific Grasses: 1-107. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Henty, E.E. (1969). A manual of the grasses of New Guinea: 1-215. Division of Botany, Dpt. of Forests, LAE, New Guinea.
- Kottekkattu, T. & Pradeep, A.K. (2018). Eragrostis brownii (Poaceae: Eragrostidinae), a new record for India. Taiwania 63: 84-88.
- Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005). Flora of Australia 44B: 1-486. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
- Sykes, W.R. (2016). Flora of the Cook Islands: 1-973. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0