Scribner, F.L. (1 July 1899), New species of North American grasses. Circular, Division of Agrostology, United States Department of Agriculture 16: 3, Fig. 2 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Cultivated from seed collected from Oodnodatta [sic], South Australia, received from A. Molineaux.

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 11 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 210 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dactyloctenium radulans (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 176 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Dactyloctenium radulans (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate

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