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• Type: "Habitat in Surinamo."

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common name: Hilo Grass [n/a] common name: Johnson River Grass [n/a] common name: Yellow Grass [n/a] common name: Sour Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 50 [secondary reference]

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Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 220 [secondary reference]

common name: Sourgrass [n/a]

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Paspalum. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1203 [secondary reference]

common name: Sourgrass [n/a]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 492 APC [secondary reference]

common name: Sour Grass [n/a]

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

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 466 [secondary reference]

common name: Johnston River Grass [n/a] common name: Hilo Grass [n/a] common name: Yellow Grass [n/a] common name: Sour Grass [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 310 [secondary reference]

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common name: Hilo Grass [n/a] common name: Yellow Grass [n/a] common name: Sour Grass [n/a]

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