Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 81 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 35 [secondary reference]

Cavanilles, A.J. (1799), Anales de Historia Natural 1(2): 100 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 135 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Phragmites Adans. legitimate

Britton, N.L. (1918), Flora of Bermuda: 29 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Arundo donax L.

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 133 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 37 [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: 940 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 138 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 471 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Arundo. Flora of New South Wales 4: 563 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 473 [secondary reference]

Linder, H.P. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Trib. Arundineae. Flora of Australia 44B: 6 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 102 (fig.), 135 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "the old Latin name for 'reed'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 71 APC [secondary reference]

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

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