Hubbard, C.E. (1934), Gramineae Australienses: II. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1934(10): 448 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Cynodon tenellus R.Br. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 212-214 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon tenellus R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Capriola tenella (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Microchloa tenella (R.Br.) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cynodon altior F.Muell. legitimate

Lazarides, M. (1972), A revision of Australian Chlorideae (Gramineae). Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series 5: 42-43 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon tenellus R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Microchloa tenella (R.Br.) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cynodon altior F.Muell. 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]

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]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Brachyachne. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1133 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Microchloa tenella (R.Br.) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cynodon altior F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Capriola tenella (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate common name: Slender Native Couch [n/a]

Nightingale, M.E., Lazarides, M. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Brachyachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 297, Fig. 50K-O [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon tenellum R.Br. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Cynodon tenellus R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Capriola tenella (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Microchloa tenella (R.Br.) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cynodon altior F.Muell. legitimate common name: Slender Native Couch [n/a]

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

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 tenellus R.Br. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Cynodon tenellus R.Br. legitimate

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 [secondary reference]

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