Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (23 October 1811), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 2(1): 189 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Panicum spinescens R.Br. legitimate

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 9 [secondary reference]

common name: Floating couch grass [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 612 [secondary reference]

common name: Water Grass [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 62 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Panicum spinescens R.Br. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 7 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 78 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pseudoraphis aspera Pilg. legitimate

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: 192 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pseudoraphis spinescens (R.Br.) Vickery legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 47 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pseudoraphis spinescens (R.Br.) Vickery legitimate

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 212 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pseudoraphis spinescens (R.Br.) Vickery legitimate

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 198 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 214 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pseudoraphis spinescens (R.Br.) Vickery legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Pseudoraphis spinescens (R.Br.) Vickery legitimate

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