Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 197 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 131 [secondary reference]

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

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

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 294-295 [secondary reference]

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: 193 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 224 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 39 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 68 [secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 263 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Xerochloa imberbis var. repens W.Fitzg. legitimate

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Xerochloa. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1244-1246, Fig. 351B [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Xerochloa imberbis var. repens W.Fitzg. legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 227 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Poaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 326, Fig. 85 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Xerochloa imberbis R.Br. var. imberbis legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rottboellia xerochloa Spreng. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Xerochloa imberbis var. repens W.Fitzg. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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