Willdenow, C.L. (1809), Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis 2: 1031 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Antillis."

• Comment: nom. illeg., non Poir. (1798). Willdenow attributes the name to "Hornem. cat. hort. haf. p. 28" [i.e. J.W.Hornemann, Enum. Pl. Hort. Hafn. 28 (1804)], where it is given without a description.

Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 169 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Setaria geniculata P.Beauv. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 266 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Setaria geniculata P.Beauv. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguelen legitimate

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