Do you remember a Nibble from a few weeks back about the bread-making potential of Australian native grasses? If you do, you may have wondered, as we did at the time, what grasses they might be, because “mandadyan nalluk” or “dancing grass” just don’t yield very much additional information on googling.
Well, there’s now a piece in The Conservation that is basically about the same thing, but thankfully links to a scientific name. Or four scientific names, to be exact, for four species in Astrebla, which is a genus that is new to me.
I do love seeing vernacular names in multiple languages being quoted in articles, but I also think they should always be backed-up by a Latin binomial.
And vice versa, of course.
LATER: Wow, The Guardian really likes this stuff. Still no Latin names though.
