Willdenow, C.L. (1809), Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis 2: 1029 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Cynosurus aegyptius L. legitimate

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xlviii. [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von in Landsborough, W. (1862), A systematic arrangement of the plants noticed around the Gulf of Carpentaria, from the Roper to the Gilbert River, including those collected during Mr. Landsborough's expedition. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria in Search of Burke and Wills: 122 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 13 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 376 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Dactyloctenium radulans (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von in Landsborough, W. (1862), A systematic arrangement of the plants noticed around the Gulf of Carpentaria, from the Roper to the Gilbert River, including those collected during Mr. Landsborough's expedition. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria in Search of Burke and Wills: 122

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 85 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleusine cruciata Lam. nom. illeg.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 133-134 [secondary reference]

Hartley, W. (1953), Standardized Plant Names: a revised list of standard common names for the more important Australian grasses, other pasture plants, and weeds. Bulletin (CSIRO) 272: 26 [secondary reference]

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: 198 [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]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 32 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Gramineae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 1932 [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]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 176-177, Fig. 27E [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus aegyptius L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chloris mucronata Michx. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium mucronatum (Michx.) Willd. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium figarei De Not. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium aegyptium var. mucronatum (Michx.) Schweinf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cynosurus ciliaris Rottler ex Hook.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium ciliare Chiov. legitimate common name: Coast Button Grass [n/a]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Dactyloctenium. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1144 [secondary reference]

common name: Coast Button grass [n/a]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 475-476, Fig. 90E [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus aegyptius L. legitimate common name: Finger Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Dactyloctenium. Flora of New South Wales 4: 528 [secondary reference]

common name: Coast Button Grass [n/a]

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]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 25 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 217 [secondary reference]

common name: Coast Button Grass [n/a]

Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Dactyloctenium. Flora of Australia 44B: 318, Fig. 55F-G [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Dactyloctenium aegyptiacum Willd. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus aegyptius L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate common name: Coast Button Grass [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Dactyloctenium aegyptiacum Willd. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus aegyptius L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine aegyptiaca Desf. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleusine cruciata Lam. nom. illeg. isonym: Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) P.Beauv. isonym isonym: Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) K.Richt. isonym

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Dactyloctenium radulans (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 133-134

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Dactyloctenium australe Steud. legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Gramineae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 1932

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 195 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Coast Button Grass [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Dactyloctenium aegyptiacum Willd. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Cynosurus aegyptius L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine aegyptiaca Desf. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dactyloctenium aegyptium var. aegyptium legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleusine cruciata Lam. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Chloris mucronata Michx. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium figarei De Not. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium aegyptium var. mucronatum (Michx.) Schweinf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cynosurus ciliaris Rottler ex Hook.f. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium ciliare Chiov. legitimate isonym: Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) P.Beauv. isonym isonym: Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) K.Richt. isonym

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

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