Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1050 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Jamaica, Curassao."

Ewart, A.J. (1908), Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. VIII. The Victorian Naturalist 24(12): 193 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 286 [secondary reference]

common name: Burr Grass [n/a]

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: 190 [secondary reference]

DeLisle, D.G. (1963), Taxonomy & Distribution of the Genus Cenchrus. Iowa State Journal of Science 37: 282-286 [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): 220 [secondary reference]

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

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 259-260 [secondary reference]

common name: Mossman River 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: 479-480, Fig. 608A [secondary reference]

common name: Mossman River grass [n/a]

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

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 947 [secondary reference]

common name: Burrgrass [n/a] common name: Mossman River Grass [n/a]

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): 23-24 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 240-241, Fig. 38D [secondary reference]

common name: Mossman River Grass [n/a]

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cenchrus. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1135-1136 [secondary reference]

common name: Mossman River grass [n/a]

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

common name: Mossman River 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: 502, pl. 28 [secondary reference]

common name: Mossman River Grass [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 310 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Sand Burr [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: Mossman River Grass [n/a] common name: Burr Grass [n/a]

Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997), Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands: 82 [secondary reference]

common name: Innocent weed [n/a] common name: Mossman river grass [n/a]

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

common name: Mossman River Grass [n/a]

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

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

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

misapplied to: Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 286

Veldkamp, J.F. (2014), A revision of Cenchrus incl. Pennisetum (Gramineae) in Malesia with some general nomenclatural notes. Blumea 59: 67-68 [secondary reference]

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 372-373, photos 17-19 [secondary reference]

common name: Burrgrass [n/a]

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