Gardner, C.A. & Hubbard, C.E. (September 1938), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 34(3): t. 3362 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Austin District: 1 mile north of Meekatharra on granite elevated ("breakaway") country, associated with Acacia quadrimarginea, Stylidium yilgarnense and Eragrostis Dielsii var. Pritzelii, 2 Aug. 1927, Gardner (typus; Herb. Kew. et Herb. Austral. O ccid., Perth)."

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

Lazarides, M. (1972), A revision of Australian Chlorideae (Gramineae). Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series 5: 47-48 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 467 [secondary reference]

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]

Nightingale, M.E., Lazarides, M. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Brachyachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 298, 300 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Peterson, P.M., Romaschenko, K. & Herrera Arrieta, Y. (2015), A molecular phylogeny and classification of the Eleusininae with a new genus, Micrachne (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae). Taxon 64(3): 458 [secondary reference]

• Type: "AUSTRALIA. Western Australia, Eremean Prov., 1 mi N of Meekatharra, 2 Aug 1927, C.A. Gardner s.n. (PERTH; isotypes: K barcodes K000885870 & K000885871 [images!])."

Peterson, P.M., Romaschenko, K. & Herrera Arrieta, Y. (2015), A molecular phylogeny and classification of the Eleusininae with a new genus, Micrachne (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae). Taxon 64(3): 458 [basionym]

basionym of: Cynodon prostratus (C.A.Gardner & C.E.Hubb.) P.M.Peterson legitimate

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 prostratus (C.A.Gardner & C.E.Hubb.) P.M.Peterson legitimate

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