Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 84 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 36 [secondary reference]

• Type: (not designated).

(1899), Journal of agriculture and industry of South Australia 3: 336 [secondary reference]

Hitchcock, A.S. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 121 [secondary reference]

• Type: Secale cereale L.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 138 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: 'Latin name for Rye"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 195 [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: 549 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1145 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 52 [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 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Secale. Flora of New South Wales 4: 600 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 302 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 519 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 101 (fig.), 366 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "the Latin name for 'Rye'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 785 [secondary reference]

Henwood, M.J. & Weiller, C.M. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Secale. Flora of Australia 44A: 104-105 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (formerly naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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