Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 83 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 36 [secondary reference]

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1: 327 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 633 [secondary reference]

Nash, G.V. in Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), Gramineae. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 281 [secondary reference]

• Type: Lolium perenne L.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 85 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name for Darnel."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 134 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name for Darnel"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 190 [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: 549 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 69 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 26-27 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 47 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 450 [secondary reference]

Kloot, P.M. (1983), The genus Lolium in Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 31(4): 421-435 [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: 966-967 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 113-114 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Lolium. Flora of New South Wales 4: 612-613 [secondary reference]

common name: Ryegrasses [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 450 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 199-200 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 403 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 421 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 101 (fig.), 296 [secondary reference]

common name: Ryegrasses [n/a]

• Etymology: "from the Latin name for 'Darnel', a species of Lolium"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 498-499 [secondary reference]

Weiller, C.M., Walsh, N.G. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Lolium. Flora of Australia 44A: 284-285 [secondary reference]

common name: Ryegrasses [n/a]

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

Banfi, E.A., Galasso, G., Foggi, B., Kopecký, D. & Ardenghi, N.M.G. (2017), From Schedonorus and Micropyropsis to Lolium (Poaceae: Loliinae): New combinations and typifications. Taxon 66(3): 708-709 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Schenodorus P.Beauv. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Schedonorus P.Beauv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Festuca subg. Schedonorus (P.Beauv.) Peterm. legitimate

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

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