Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 51, 171, 178 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Panicum setosum Sw. legitimate

Kunth, K.S. in Humboldt, F.W.H.A. von, Bonpland, A.J.A. & Kunth, K.S. (1816), Nova Genera et Species Plantarum Edn. Quarto, 1(1-2): 110 [doubtful taxonomic synonym]

doubtful taxonomic synonym of: Setaria macrostachya Kunth legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(63): 110 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pennisetum swartzii F.Muell. nom. illeg.

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