Garber, E.D. & Snyder, L.A. (1951), Madroño; Journal of the California Botanical Society: 8 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "East of Mataranka, near Elsey Station, Northern Territory, Australia, April 29, 1947, S.T. Blake, 17536 (Herbarium, Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, Queensland)."

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 223 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 66 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M., Hacker, J.B. & Andrew, M.H. (29 November 1991), Taxonomy of indigenous Australian sorghums (Sorghum Moench: Andropogoneae: Poaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 4(4): 624, figs 1f, 6d (map) APC [secondary reference]

• Type: Northern Territory: Darwin and Gulf Distric; E of Mataranka, near Elsey Station, S.T. Blake 17536, 29.iv.1947 (holo, BRI; iso, CANB).

• APC Dist.: NT

Spangler, R.E. (28 June 2003), Taxonomy of Sarga, Sorghum and Vacoparis (Poaceae: Andropogoneae). Australian Systematic Botany 16(3): 292 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Sarga timorense (Kunth) Spangler legitimate

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