Willdenow, C.L. (1797), Species Plantarum Edn. 4, 1(1): 332 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Guinea." [Ghana, Isert s.n. (B!, Holo) (ref. G.Zizka, Bibliotheca Botanica 138 (1988) 55)]

(1934), Notes on African grasses: XV. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1934(3): 110 [basionym]

basionym of: Rhynchelytrum repens (Willd.) C.E.Hubb. legitimate

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 192 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhynchelytrum repens (Willd.) C.E.Hubb. legitimate

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 220 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhynchelytrum repens (Willd.) C.E.Hubb. legitimate

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 481 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhynchelytrum repens (Willd.) C.E.Hubb. legitimate

Zizka, G. (1988), Bibliotheca Botanica 138: 55 [basionym]

basionym of: Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 241 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhynchelytrum repens (Willd.) C.E.Hubb. legitimate

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 496 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhynchelytrum repens (Willd.) C.E.Hubb. legitimate

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 488 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rhynchelytrum repens (Willd.) C.E.Hubb. legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 605 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka subsp. repens legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka legitimate

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