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

basionym: Milium compressum Sw. legitimate

Cross, D.O. & Vickery, J.W. (22 May 1950), List of the naturalised grasses in New South Wales. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 1(5): 276 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 237-238 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Milium compressum Sw. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Anastrophus compressus Schltdl. legitimate common name: Carpet Grass [n/a]

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 19(1): 114-115 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Milium compressum Sw. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Paspalum compressum (Sw.) Raspail legitimate taxonomic synonym: Paspalum platycaulon Poir. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Paspalum platicaulon Poir. orth. var. common name: Broad-leafed Carpet Grass [n/a]

Black, G.A. (1963), Advancing Frontiers of Plant Science: 50-55 [secondary reference]

Gledhill, D. (1966), Cytotaxonomic revision of the Axonopus compressus (Sw.) Beauv. complex. Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana 40: 126-127 [secondary reference]

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

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 31, 186 [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]

common name: Broadleaf Carpet Grass [n/a]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 14-15 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Paspalum platycaulon Poir. legitimate

Green, J.W. (20 June 1988), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 6: 2 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Axonopus affinis Chase legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 224, Fig. 35K [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Milium compressum Sw. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Paspalum compressum (Sw.) Raspail legitimate taxonomic synonym: Paspalum platycaulon Poir. legitimate common name: Broadleaf Carpet Grass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Milium compressum Sw. legitimate common name: Carpet 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: 464 [secondary reference]

common name: Broad-leaved Carpet Grass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Milium compressum Sw. legitimate

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]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 567 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Broad-leafed Carpet Grass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Milium compressum Sw. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Axonopus compressus (Sw.) P.Beauv. subsp. compressus legitimate taxonomic synonym: Paspalum platicaulon Poir. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Paspalum platycaulon Poir. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Paspalum platycaule F.M.Bailey orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Axonopus compressus subsp. brevipedunculatus Gledhill legitimate

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

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

misapplied to: Axonopus fissifolius (Raddi) Kuhlm. legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 31, 186

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