Linnaeus, C. (October 1771), Mantissa Plantarum Altera [2]: 302 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat ad Cap. b. spei margines agrorum et in dumis. Koenig."

Richard, L.C.M. in Persoon, C.H. (1805), Pennisetum. Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum 1: 72 [basionym]

basionym of: Pennisetum cenchroides Rich. nom. illeg.

Link, J.H.F. (1827), Hortus Regius Botanicus Berolinensis 1: 213 [basionym]

basionym of: Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link legitimate

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 255 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 284 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pennisetum cenchroides Rich. nom. illeg. common name: Black Buffel Grass [n/a]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 46 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 220 [secondary reference]

Weston, A.S. (23 May 1974), The genus Cenchrus (Poaceae) in Australia. Nuytsia 1(4): 378, Fig. 1F [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pennisetum cenchroides Rich. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Cenchrus pennisetiformis Hochst. & Steud. legitimate common name: Buffel Grass [n/a]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 255-256 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pennisetum cenchroides Rich. nom. illeg. common name: Buffel Grass [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 72, Fig. 13a [secondary reference]

common name: Rhodesian Foxtail [n/a] common name: African Foxtail [n/a] common name: Black Buffel Grass [n/a] common name: Buffel Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 39 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 480, Fig. 605B [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cenchrus pennisetiformis Hochst. & Steud. legitimate common name: Buffel grass [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Cenchrus pennisetiformis Hochst. & Steud. legitimate

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Gramineae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 1961 [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): 22-23 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cenchrus pennisetiformis Hochst. & Steud. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 240, Fig. 38B [secondary reference]

common name: Buffel Grass [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Cenchrus pennisetiformis Hochst. & Steud. legitimate common name: Buffel grass [n/a]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 500 [secondary reference]

common name: Black Buffel Grass [n/a] common name: Buffel Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 501-502 [secondary reference]

common name: A Buffel Grass [n/a]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 24 [secondary reference]

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: Black Buffel Grass [n/a]

Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997), Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands: 79-81 [secondary reference]

common name: Buffel grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 179-180 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Buffel Grass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Pennisetum cenchroides Rich. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link legitimate

• APC Comment: Treated as Pennisetum ciliare in Qld.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), AR (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Cenchrus pennisetiformis Hochst. & Steud. legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Gramineae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 1961

Simon, B.K. (7 December 2010), New taxa, nomenclatural changes and notes on Australian grasses in the tribe Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae). Austrobaileya 8(2): 191 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link legitimate

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