Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 53, t. 11, fig. 1 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Cette espèce, de l'Ile-de-France, m'a été communiquée par M. de Jussieu ..."

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1827), Curae Posteriores. Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 4(2): 33 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Setaria pilifera Spreng. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 476 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Panicum helopus Trin. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. & Hubbard, C.E. (September 1938), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 34(3): sub.t. 3363, p. 2, adnot. [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 19(1): 123-124 [secondary reference]

common name: Liverseed Grass [n/a] common name: Urochloa Grass [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 152-153 [secondary reference]

common name: Urochloa Grass [n/a] common name: Liverseed Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 55 [secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 142 [secondary reference]

common name: Liverseed grass [n/a]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 246 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Urochloa panicoides var. pubescens (Kunth) Bor legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 210, Fig. 33J [secondary reference]

common name: Urochloa Grass [n/a] common name: Liverseed Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 472, pl. 27 [secondary reference]

common name: Liverseed Grass [n/a] common name: Urochloa Grass [n/a]

Veldkamp, J.F. (1996), Brachiaria, Urochloa (Gramineae - Paniceae) in Malesia. Blumea 41(2): 433 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 396 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Liverseed Grass [n/a] common name: Urochloa Grass [n/a]

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

• APC Comment: Varietal rank not recognised in NSW.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

doubtful misapplication: Panicum helopus Trin. legitimate by Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 32

• APC Comment: Varietal rank not recognised in NSW.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised)

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