Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 54 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 28 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 203 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 131 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Erianthus Michx. legitimate

Nash, G.V. (30 June 1909), Poaceae. North American Flora 17(1): 89 [secondary reference]

• Type: Saccharum officinarum L.

Roberty, G.E. (July 1960), Monographie systématique des Andropogonées du globe. Boissiera 9: 348-376 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1145 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 163 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Erianthus Michx. legitimate

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 502 [secondary reference]

common name: Sugar Canes [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Saccharum. Flora of New South Wales 4: 433 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 99 (fig.), 363 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "an old Greek word for 'sugar'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 757-758 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Erianthus Michx. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Saccharum sect. Erianthus (Michx.) Roberty legitimate

• APC Dist.: ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Soltis, D.E., Smith, S.A., Cellinese, N., Wurdack, K.J., Tank, D.C., Brockington, S.F., Refulio-Rodriguez, N.F., Walker, J.B., Moore, M.J., Carlswars, B.S., Bell, C.D., Latvis, M., Crawley, S., Black, C., Diouf, D., Xi, Z., Rushworth, C.A., Gitzendanner, M.A., Sytsma, K.J., Qui, Y., Hilu, K.W., Davis, C.C., Sanderson, M.J., Beaman, R.S., Olmstead, R.G., Judd, W.S., Donoghue, M.J. & Soltis, P.S. (1 April 2011), Angiosperm Phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa. American Journal of Botany 98(4): Fig. 2B [secondary reference]

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