Vahl, M.(H.) (1805), Enumeratio Plantarum 2: 395 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Arabia. Forskâl."

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 286 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 220 [secondary reference]

Weston, A.S. (23 May 1974), The genus Cenchrus (Poaceae) in Australia. Nuytsia 1(4): 379, Fig. 1G [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 257-258 [secondary reference]

common name: Birdwood Grass [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 72, Fig. 13b, 73 [secondary reference]

common name: Birdwood Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 39 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 480, Fig. 608C [secondary reference]

common name: Birdwood grass [n/a]

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

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 61 [secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 27-28 [secondary reference]

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cenchrus. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1136 [secondary reference]

common name: Birdwood grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 502 [secondary reference]

common name: Birdwood Grass [n/a]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 216 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Cenchrus setigerus Vahl orth. var. common name: Birdwood Grass [n/a]

Wipff, J.K. (2001), Nomenclatural changes in Pennisetum (Poaceae: Paniceae). Sida; contributions to botany 19(3): 527 [basionym]

basionym of: Pennisetum setigerum (Vahl) Wipff legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 181 (fig.) -182 [secondary reference]

common name: Birdwood Grass [n/a]

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

orthographic variant: Cenchrus setigerus Vahl orth. var.

• APC Comment: Treated as Pennisetum setigerum in Qld.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Simon, B.K. (7 December 2010), New taxa, nomenclatural changes and notes on Australian grasses in the tribe Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae). Austrobaileya 8(2): 191 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pennisetum setigerum (Vahl) Wipff legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Cenchrus setigerus Vahl orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Pennisetum setigerum (Vahl) Wipff legitimate

• APC Comment: Spelling of the name Cenchrus setiger follows ICBN Art. 32.7 (2006) and W.T.Stearn, Botanical Latin 4th edn 4:91 (1992).
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

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