Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(63): 107 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Ad rivum Sturt's Creek, F.M.; Cape York, Daemel."

Bailey, F.M. (1877), Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland: 9 [secondary reference]

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

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 9 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 611 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 332 [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): 277 [basionym]

basionym of: Pennisetum elymoides (F.Muell.) C.A.Gardner legitimate

DeLisle, D.G. (1963), Taxonomy & Distribution of the Genus Cenchrus. Iowa State Journal of Science 37: 319 [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): 378-379, Fig. 1H [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pennisetum elymoides (F.Muell.) C.A.Gardner legitimate

Simon, B.K. (14 July 1984), Studies in Australian Grasses: 1. Austrobaileya 2(1): 21 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Western Australia – Mueller District: Sturts Creek, Mueller (MEL sub MEL 604906, lectotypus, photo in BRI)."

nomenclatural synonym: Pennisetum elymoides (F.Muell.) C.A.Gardner legitimate

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): 24-25 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Cenchrus elymoides var. brevisetosus B.K.Simon legitimate

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cenchrus. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1136, Fig. 328A [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pennisetum elymoides (F.Muell.) C.A.Gardner legitimate

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]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Pennisetum elymoides (F.Muell.) C.A.Gardner legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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 elymoides (F.Muell.) C.A.Gardner legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021. Nuytsia 33: 5 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cenchrus elymoides F.Muell. var. elymoides legitimate

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