Roxburgh, W. (1820), Flora Indica; or descriptions of Indian Plants, by the late William Roxburgh 1: 238 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "A native of the interior, elevated, dry parts of the Coromandel coast."

Gardner, C.A. (May 1931), Part III. Geraniaceae–Compositae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 140 [secondary reference]

Weston, A.S. (23 May 1974), The genus Cenchrus (Poaceae) in Australia. Nuytsia 1(4): 376, Fig. 1C [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 31 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 61 [secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 20-21 [secondary reference]

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cenchrus. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1135 [secondary reference]

common name: Gallon's Curse [n/a]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 216 [secondary reference]

common name: Gallon's Curse [n/a]

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

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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