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

basionym: Cynodon convergens F.Muell. legitimate

• Comment: Stapf makes the combination by including it in the diagnosis provided for Brachyachne fulva Stapf.

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 214 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon convergens F.Muell. legitimate

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 320 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. & Murray, L.R. (1963), Poisonous Plants of the Northern Territory: 27, Fig. 4 [secondary reference]

common name: Native Couch [n/a] common name: Spider Grass [n/a]

Lazarides, M. (1972), A revision of Australian Chlorideae (Gramineae). Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series 5: 42 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon convergens F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Microchloa convergens (F.Muell.) Domin legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 219 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 67, Fig. 10 [secondary reference]

common name: Summer Grass [n/a] common name: Native Couch [n/a] common name: Spider Grass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon convergens F.Muell. legitimate

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 466, Fig. 593 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon convergens F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Microchloa convergens (F.Muell.) Domin legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 31 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 60 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 158, Fig. 25E [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon convergens F.Muell. legitimate common name: Spider Grass [n/a] common name: Common Native Couch [n/a]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Brachyachne. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1131, Fig. 326A [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Capriola convergens (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Microchloa convergens (F.Muell.) Domin legitimate common name: Kimberley Couch [n/a] common name: Common Native Couch [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon convergens F.Muell. legitimate common name: Spider Grass [n/a] common name: Common Native Couch [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 310 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 216 [secondary reference]

common name: Kimberley Couch [n/a]

Nightingale, M.E., Lazarides, M. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Brachyachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 295 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon convergens F.Muell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Capriola convergens (F.Muell.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Microchloa convergens (F.Muell.) Domin legitimate

• APC Comment: Treated as Cynodon convergens in WA.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon convergens F.Muell. legitimate common name: Spider Grass [n/a] common name: Common Native Couch [n/a]

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (16 March 2017), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2016. Nuytsia 28: 124 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cynodon convergens F.Muell. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Cynodon convergens F.Muell. legitimate

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