Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 12 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Hooker, J.D. (April 1896), Gramineae. The Flora of British India 7(21): 64 [secondary reference]

Chase, M.A. (1911), Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 24: 129 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Axonopus compressus (Sw.) P.Beauv.

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 611 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 19(1): 113-115 [secondary reference]

common name: Carpet Grasses [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 522 [secondary reference]

Black, G.A. (1963), Advancing Frontiers of Plant Science: 1-186 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 63 [secondary reference]

Hickenbick, M.C.M., Valls, J.F.M., Salzano, F.M., Fernandes, M.I.B.de M. (1975), Cytogenetic and evolutionary relationships in the genus Axonopus (Gramineae). Cytologia 40: 185-204 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 38 [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: 942 [secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 13-15 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 224 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 493 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 463 [secondary reference]

common name: Carpet Grasses [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 484-485 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 598 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 405 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 93 (fig.), 164 [secondary reference]

common name: Carpet Grasses [n/a]

• Etymology: "from the Greek words for 'axis' and 'foot'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 83 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Cabrera Lag. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lappagopsis Steud. legitimate

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

Morrone, O., Aagesen, L., Scataglini, M.A., Salariato, D.L., Denham, S.S., Chemisquy, M.A., Sede, S.M., Giussani, L.M., Kellog, E.A. & Zuloaga, F.O. (2012), Phylogeny of the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae): integrating plastid DNA sequences and morphology into a new classification. Cladistics 28(4): 349 [secondary reference]

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