Endlicher, S.F.L. (1833), Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae: 20 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Dichelachne montana Endl.

Trinius, C.B. von & Ruprecht, F.J. (1842), Gramina Agrostidea III. Callus obconicus (Stipacea). Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Sixieme serie 7(2) [Sci. nat. t. 5]: 2 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 133 [secondary reference]

pro parte taxonomic synonym: Muhlenbergia Schreb. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 624 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 70 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek dikhelos, cloven-footed; akhne, glume: the flowering glume is 2-lobed."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 99 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek dikhelos, cloven-footed; akhne, glume; flowering glume 2-lobed"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 150 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 537 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 47-48 [secondary reference]

Veldkamp, J.F. (1975), A taxonomic revision of Dichelachne Endl. (Graminae) with some combinations in Stipa L. and Oryzopsis Michx. Blumea 22(1): 5-12 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 42 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 954 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 130-131 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Dichelachne. Flora of New South Wales 4: 582 [secondary reference]

common name: Plumegrasses [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L., McClay, K.L & Simon, B.K. (1 April 1993), Review of Dichelachne (Gramineae) in Australia. Telopea 5(2): 325-328 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 463 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 276-277 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 491-492 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 411 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Dichelachna T.Post & Kuntze orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI, NI, ACT, Vic, Tas

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 87 (fig.), 90 (fig.), 208-209 [secondary reference]

common name: Plumegrasses [n/a]

• Etymology: "Greek words for 'cloven-footed' and 'glume', referring to the 2-lobed lemma"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 268 [secondary reference]

Simon, B.K., Weiller, C.M. & Kodela, P.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Dichelachne. Flora of Australia 44A: 214 [secondary reference]

common name: Plumegrasses [n/a]

Peterson, P.M., Soreng, R.J., Romaschenko, K., Barberá, P., Quintanar, A., Aedo, C. & Saarela, J.M. (11 December 2021), Phylogeny and biogeography of Calamagrostis (Poaceae: Pooideae: Poeae: Agrostidinae), description of a new genus, Condilorachia (Calothecinae), and expansion of Greeneochloa and Pentapogon (Echinopogoninae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution 60(3): 586 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pentapogon R.Br. legitimate

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