The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae). 1987. 263 figures (distribution maps). 322 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

From the Introduction: The tribe Paniceae (Poaceae, subfamilyPanicoideae, supertribe Panicanae; type genus Panicum L.) comprises about 90 genera, concentrated in the tropics and subtropics butextending into warm temperate regions. In Australia it is the largestgrass tribe, with 45 genera and 263 subgeneric taxa, and is of majorecological and economic importance. My objective has been to fulfill theneed for an up to date Australia-wide account, by the development of anautomated database using the DELTA system (Dallwitz, 1980, 1984). The308 taxa of the Australian Paniceae recognized by me were describedagainst a character list comprising 208 characters. It includes a'comment character' for nomenclature, 42 characters for vegetativefeatures, 52 for inflorescence features, 104 for spikelet details andone for cytology. Additionally, all taxa are scored as native orintroduced, distribution by State, distribution by the botanical regionsof Barlow (1984) and the vegetation regions of Moore (1975), moisturerequirements and flowering period. General remarks and representativespecimen citations are also included, as are pertinent literaturecitations. The genera are described in alphabetical order, each genericdescription being followed (where appropriate) by a key to the speciesand by the species descriptions, also in alphabetic sequence.Distribution maps are likewise presented alphabetically by genus andspecies.