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Scientific name Eragrostis brownii
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First published in in Wight, Cat. 105 (1834). , as 'brownei'

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The leaves are usually flat, but may be slightly folded. The spikelets are green to yellow in colour and are arranged in a single row on the stem. The flowers are small and inconspicuous. The fruit is a small, three-sided achene. Eragrostis brownii is a hardy species, tolerating a wide range of soil types and conditions.

Eragrostis brownii, commonly known as Browns lovegrass, is a widespread species of grass found in Australia and New Zealand. It grows up to .6 m (2 ft 0 in) tall and has flat, slightly folded leaves. The spikelets are green to yellow in color and arranged in a single row on the stem. The flowers are small and inconspicuous, and the fruit is a small, three-sided achene. It is a hardy species, tolerating a wide range of soil types and conditions, and is named in honour of the Scottish botanist Robert Brown.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Eragrostis atrovirens f. brownii (Kunth) Hack. Allg. Bot. Z. Syst. 21: 38 1915
Eragrostis bellissima B.S.Sun & S.Wang J. Yunnan Univ. (Nat. Sci. Ed.) 20: 353. 1998 (1998)
Eragrostis benthamii Mattei Contr. Biol. Veg. 4: 237 (1909)
Eragrostis browneana Nees Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 19(Suppl. 1): 205. 1843 , as 'browneana'
Eragrostis brownii var. patens Benth. Fl. Austral. 7: 647 (1878)
Eragrostis molokaiensis H.St.John Phytologia 64: 177 (1988)
Eragrostis philippica Jedwabn. Bot. Arch. 5: 191 (1924)
Eragrostis polymorpha Jedwabn. Bot. Arch. 5: 188 (1924)
Eragrostis santapaui K.G.Bhat & Nagendran Reinwardtia 10: 127 (1985)
Eragrostis urvillei Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 279 (1854)
Megastachya polymorpha P.Beauv. Ess. Agrostogr. 74. 1812
Poa brownei Kunth Révis. Gramin. 1(pt. 7): 112. 1829 [Sep 1829] : see P. brownii
Poa brownii Kunth Révis. Gramin. 1(pt. 7): 112. 1829 [Sep 1829] : see P. brownii
Poa polymorpha R.Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 180. 1810 [27 Mar 1810]
Uniola spicata Llanos Fragm. Pl. Filip. 33. 1851 (1851)
Megastachya brownii P.Beauv. ex Kunth Révis. Gramin. 1: 112 (1829)

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Chinese 长画眉草
Chinese 長畫眉草

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000867482
Tropicos 25548661
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:118024-3
The Plant List kew-412313
Open Tree Of Life 7588202
NCBI Taxonomy 2575270
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0200003871
IPNI 400897-1
iNaturalist 369708
GBIF 4149175
EPPO ERABR
USDA GRIN 27877
Wikipedia Eragrostis_brownii

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Diverse ecological functions and the convergent evolution of grass awns Petersen KB, Kellogg EA Am J Bot 26-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9828495
doi:10.1002/ajb2.16060
PMID:36048829
Multi-locus phylogeny and taxonomy of Exserohilum Hernández-Restrepo M, Madrid H, Tan YP, da Cunha KC, Gené J, Guarro J, Crous PW Persoonia 13-Mar-2018
PMCID:PMC6344813
doi:10.3767/persoonia.2018.41.05
PMID:30728600

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