Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 51 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1988) No. 171).

Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1817), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 2: 490 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 130 [secondary reference]

Scribner, F.L. (1897), Bulletin, Division of Agrostology, United States Department of Agriculture 4: 38 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Chaetochloa Scribn. legitimate

Kuntze, C.E.O. in Post, T. von & Kuntze, O. (1903), Lexikon Generum Phanerogamarum: 115 [basionym]

basionym of: Chamaeraphis sect. Setaria (P.Beauv.) Kuntze legitimate

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

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 61 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin seta, a bristle: the spikelets are surrounded by stiff bristles."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 75 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin seta, a bristle; the spikelets are subtended by stiff bristles"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 264 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 526 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 66-68 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 225-241 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chaetochloa Scribn. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 53 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 480 [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: 985-986 [secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 203-216 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chaetochloa Scribn. legitimate

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 162 [secondary reference]

• Type: Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv. (typ. cons.)

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 200 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 93 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chaetochloa Scribn. legitimate

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Setaria. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1218 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 493-494 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 494 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 485-486 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 341-342 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 599 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 433 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 98 (fig.), 99 (fig.), 367-368 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Latin word for 'bristle'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 792 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Chamaeraphis sect. Setaria (P.Beauv.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chaetochloa Scribn. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI, NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Morrone, O., Aagesen, L., Scataglini, M.A., Salariato, D.L., Denham, S.S., Chemisquy, M.A., Sede, S.M., Giussani, L.M., Kellog, E.A. & Zuloaga, F.O. (2012), Phylogeny of the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae): integrating plastid DNA sequences and morphology into a new classification. Cladistics 28(4): 349 [secondary reference]

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