Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (November 1817), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 2: 615 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Festuca fusca L. legitimate

Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(3): 247 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Uralepis fusca (L.) Steud. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 134 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 13 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Festuca fusca L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Uralepis fusca (L.) Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triodia ambigua R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uralepis drummondii Steud. legitimate

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 16 [secondary reference]

common name: Brown-flowered swamp grass [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 629 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (December 1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 389 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Festuca fusca L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Uralepis fusca (L.) Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triodia ambigua R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uralepis drummondii Steud. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 76 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 9 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 113, Fig. 142 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 111 [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: 544 [secondary reference]

common name: Brown Beetle Grass [n/a]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 62 [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]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 88 [secondary reference]

common name: Brown Beetle Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 43 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 461--462, Fig. 584 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Festuca fusca L. legitimate common name: Brown beetle-grass [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 32 [secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 141 [secondary reference]

common name: Brown beetle grass [n/a]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 62 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 172-173, Fig. 27B [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Festuca fusca L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Diplachne muelleri Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Diplachne reptatrix (L.) Druce legitimate common name: Brown Beetle Grass [n/a]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Diplachne. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1151 [secondary reference]

common name: Brown Beetle grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 532 [secondary reference]

common name: A Brown Beetle Grass [n/a]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (September 1993), Gramineae. A list of the vascular plants of South Australia Edn. 4: 115 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 558, Fig. 112e [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Festuca fusca L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Diplachne muelleri Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Diplachne reptatrix (L.) Druce legitimate taxonomic synonym: Leptochloa muelleri (Benth.) Stace legitimate common name: Brown Beetle-grass [n/a]

Lazarides, M. (29 August 1997), A revision of Triodia including Plectrachne (Poaceae, Eragrostideae, Triodiinae). Australian Systematic Botany 10(3): 485 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Triodia ambigua R.Br. legitimate by Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 183

Jessup, L.W. (2005), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 3 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [nomenclatural synonym]

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Leptochloa fusca subsp. muelleri (Benth.) N.Snow legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (September 1993), Gramineae. A list of the vascular plants of South Australia Edn. 4: 115

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

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

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 222 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Brown Beetle Grass [n/a]

Peterson, P.M., Romaschenko, K., Snow, N. & Johnson, G. (2012), A molecular phylogeny and classification of Leptochloa (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Chlorideae) sensu lato and related genera. Annals of Botany new ser., 109: 1327 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Festuca fusca L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Uralepis fusca (L.) Steud. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Diplachne fusca (L.) Stapf isonym taxonomic synonym: Festuca reptatrix L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triodia parviflora R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triodia ambigua R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Uralepis drummondii Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Diplachne parviflora (R.Br.) Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Diplachne reptatrix (L.) Druce legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW (native and naturalised), ACT (formerly naturalised), Vic

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

misapplied to: Diplachne fusca subsp. muelleri (Benth.) P.M.Peterson & N.Snow legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (September 1993), Gramineae. A list of the vascular plants of South Australia Edn. 4: 115

Snow, N., Peterson, P.M., Romaschenko, K. & Simon, B.K. (2018), Monograph of Diplachne (Poaceae, Chloridoideae, Cynodonteae). PhytoKeys 93: 15-16 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Festuca fusca L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Uralepis fusca (L.) Steud. legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (22 March 2018), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2017. Nuytsia 29: 9 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth legitimate

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