Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1798), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 4(2): 727 [as "737"] [tax. nov.]

• Type: "J'ai observé cette plante dans l'herbier du citoyen Jussieu, où elle se trouve sans aucune indication de pays. Je l'ai vu depuis dans un herbier fait aux Antilles, & particuliérement à la Guadeloupe. ( V. s. )"

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 767 [basionym]

basionym of: Chamaeraphis glauca var. geniculata (Poir.) Kuntze legitimate

Scribner, F.L. & Merrill, E.D. (1900), Bulletin, Division of Agrostology, United States Department of Agriculture 21: 12 [basionym]

basionym of: Chaetochloa imberbis var. geniculata (Poir.) Scribn. & Merr. legitimate

Millspaugh, C.F. & Chase, M.A. (1903), Plantae Yucatanae (Regionis Antillanae): plants of the insular, coastal and plain regions of the Peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico. Publications of the Field Columbian Museum, Botanical Series 3(1): 37 [basionym]

basionym of: Chaetochloa geniculata (Poir.) Millsp. & Chase legitimate

Urban, I. (1903), Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis 4: 96 [basionym]

basionym of: Setaria glauca var. geniculata (Poir.) Urb. legitimate

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 236 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Setaria geniculata P.Beauv. legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 601 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Setaria gracilis Kunth 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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