Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 182 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(64): 129 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Festuca brownii F.Muell. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 620 [basionym]

basionym of: Diplachne parviflora (R.Br.) Benth. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 111 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Diplachne parviflora (R.Br.) Benth. legitimate

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 462 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Diplachne parviflora (R.Br.) Benth. legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 173 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Diplachne parviflora (R.Br.) Benth. legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 558 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Diplachne parviflora (R.Br.) Benth. legitimate

Lazarides, M. (29 August 1997), A revision of Triodia including Plectrachne (Poaceae, Eragrostideae, Triodiinae). Australian Systematic Botany 10(3): 486 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Diplachne parviflora (R.Br.) Benth. legitimate

Nightingale, M.E., Weiller, C.M. & Lazarides, M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Leptochloa. Flora of Australia 44B: 441 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth subsp. fusca legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Diplachne fusca (L.) P.Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. legitimate

Snow, N., Peterson, P.M., Romaschenko, K. & Simon, B.K. (2018), Monograph of Diplachne (Poaceae, Chloridoideae, Cynodonteae). Phytokeys 93: 18 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "AUSTRALIA. Northern Territory, Arnhem Bay, 'Littora Nova Hollandiae intra tropicum', R. Brown 6254 (lectotype, here designated: BM! [BM000514993]; isolectotype: K [K000899898]!; isolectotype fragment: BRI!)."

Snow, N., Peterson, P.M., Romaschenko, K. & Simon, B.K. (2018), Monograph of Diplachne (Poaceae, Chloridoideae, Cynodonteae). Phytokeys 93: 18 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Diplachne fusca (L.) P.Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. subsp. fusca legitimate

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