Moench, C. (1794), Methodus Plantas Horti Botanici et Agri Marburgensis: 201 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Cynosurus aureus L. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 636 [secondary reference]

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 25 [secondary reference]

common name: Golden-headed grass [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 629 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 76 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus aureus L. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 10 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 114 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus aureus L. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 42 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus aureus L. legitimate common name: Golden Top grass [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: 547 [secondary reference]

common name: Golden-Top [n/a]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 109 [secondary reference]

vernacular name: Golden-top [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 112 [secondary reference]

common name: Golden Lamarckia [n/a] common name: Silver-grass [n/a] common name: Golden-top [n/a]

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

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 35 [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): 141 [secondary reference]

common name: Goldentop [n/a]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 113, Fig. 18H [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus aureus L. legitimate common name: Goldentop [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Lamarckia. Flora of New South Wales 4: 604 [secondary reference]

common name: Goldentop [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 410-411, Fig. 82a-b [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus aureus L. legitimate common name: Golden-top [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 291 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Goldentop [n/a]

Weiller, C.M. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Lamarckia. Flora of Australia 44A: 347, Plate 38, Fig. 46C-D [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus aureus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Achyrodes aureum (L.) Kuntze legitimate common name: Feathery Barley Grass [n/a] common name: Goldentop [n/a]

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Lamarckiana aurea F.M.Bailey orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus aureus L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Achyrodes aureum (L.) Kuntze legitimate

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

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