Poaceae Barnhart
Cynodonteae Dumort. , legitimate, scientific
Dumortier, B.C.J. (1824), Observations sur les Graminees de la Flore Belgique: 83 [tax. nov.]
Mallett, K. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Trib. Cynodonteae. Flora of Australia 44B: 260 [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Cynodoneae Dumort. orth. var.