Stapf, O. in Oliver, D., Thiselton Dyer, W.T., Prain, D. & Hill, A.W. (ed.) (1 July 1917), Gramineae. Flora of Tropical Africa 9(1): 20 [comb. et stat. nov.]

basionym: Cynodon sect. Brachyachne Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate

• Comment: Stapf in Prain only mentions the genus in the key, however, the combination is made by indirect reference to the basionym.
• Reference Note: in clavis

Stapf, O. (June 1922), Brachyachne fulva, Stapf. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 31: sub t. 3099 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. & Hubbard, C.E. (September 1938), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 34(3): sub.t. 3362, p. 2 [secondary reference]

• Type: Brachyachne convergens (F.Muell.) Stapf

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 130 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek brakhys, short; akhne, a glume; the flowering glume is shorter than the 2 outer glumes"

Lazarides, M. (1972), A revision of Australian Chlorideae (Gramineae). Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series 5: 41-48 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon sect. Brachyachne Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 38 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 466 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 158 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Brachyachne. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1131 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Brachyachne. Flora of New South Wales 4: 522-523 [secondary reference]

common name: Native Couch [n/a]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Poaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 282 [secondary reference]

Nightingale, M.E., Lazarides, M. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Brachyachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 294 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon sect. Brachyachne Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 93 (fig.), 170 [secondary reference]

common name: Native Couch [n/a]

• Etymology: "from the Greek words for 'short' and 'glumes', alluding to the short lemmas."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 117 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon sect. Brachyachne Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cynodon Rich. nom. cons.

Albrecht, D.E. & McLay, T.G.B. (2 December 2022), A new species of Brachyachne (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae) from semi-arid Northern Territory and Western Australia, and additional notes on the genus. Nuytsia 33: 272-273 [secondary reference]

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