Oliver, D., Thiselton Dyer, W.T., Prain, D. & Hill, A.W. in Oliver, D., Thiselton Dyer, W.T., Prain, D. & Hill, A.W. (ed.) (1930), Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 795 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Panicum sphacelatum Schumach. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 266 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Panicum sphacelatum Schumach. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Setaria aurea Hochst. ex A.Braun legitimate

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 237-238 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Panicum sphacelatum Schumach. legitimate

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

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 37 [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: 987-988 [secondary reference]

common name: South African Pigeon Grass [n/a]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 213-214 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 203 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Panicum sphacelatum Schumach. legitimate common name: South African Pigeon 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: 496-497 [secondary reference]

common name: Setaria [n/a] common name: South African Pigeon Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 370 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Setaria [n/a] common name: South African Pigeon Grass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Panicum sphacelatum Schumach. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Setaria sphacelata M.B.Moss nom. inval.

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

Crespo, M.B., Alonso, M.A., Martínez-Azorín, M. & Sáez, L. (4 August 2020), Miscellaneous notes on nomenclature and taxonomy of some Old World names in tribe Paniceae (Panicoideae, Poaceae). Phytotaxa 454(4): 248 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Panicum sphacelatum Schumach. legitimate

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