Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 132, 165, 178 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Holcus plumosus R.Br. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 540 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 26 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Holcus plumosus R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon australis Spreng. legitimate

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 41 [secondary reference]

common name: Plumose Sorghum [n/a]

Turner, F. (1890), The grasses of New South Wales. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 1(3): 311 [secondary reference]

common name: Plumose Sorghum [n/a] common name: Plumose Sorghum [n/a]

Turner, F. (1892), The grasses of Australia. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 3(1): 3 [secondary reference]

Turner, F. (1895), Australian grasses (with illustrations) 1: 49-50 [secondary reference]

common name: Wild Sorghum [n/a]

Maiden, J.H. (1898), A manual of the grasses of New South Wales: 91 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 620 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 271 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon australis Spreng. legitimate

Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1916), A Census of New South Wales Plants: 15 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 317-318 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Holcus plumosus R.Br. legitimate

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 196 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 19(1): 31 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Sorghum leiocladum (Hack.) C.E.Hubb. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 540

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Sorghum leiocladum (Hack.) C.E.Hubb. legitimate by Turner, F. (1895), Australian grasses (with illustrations) 1: 49-50

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sorghum leiocladum (Hack.) C.E.Hubb. legitimate by Turner, F. (1890), The grasses of New South Wales. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 1(3): 311

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sorghum leiocladum (Hack.) C.E.Hubb. legitimate by Turner, F. (1892), The grasses of Australia. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 3(1): 3

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sorghum leiocladum (Hack.) C.E.Hubb. legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1898), A manual of the grasses of New South Wales: 91

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Sorghum leiocladum (Hack.) C.E.Hubb. legitimate by Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1916), A Census of New South Wales Plants: 15

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]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 491, Fig. 624 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Holcus plumosus R.Br. legitimate common name: Plume sorghum [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 37 [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): 626, figs 3i-k, 7b (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: Queensland: Burke District; Gulf of Carpentaria, Allen Island (Wellesley Group), 19.xi.1802, R. Brown (6192( (holo, BM; iso, K).

nomenclatural synonym: Holcus plumosus R.Br. legitimate

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Sorghum. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1221, Fig. 345B [secondary reference]

common name: Plume Sorghum [n/a]

Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia: 208 (map) [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Holcus plumosus R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon australis Spreng. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon australis Spreng. subsp. australis legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon australis var. genuinus Hack. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. nomenclatural synonym: Sorghum plumosum var. typicum Domin nom. inval. nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon plumosus (R.Br.) Backer nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Sarga plumosum (R.Br.) Spangler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon australis subsp. plumosus Hack. nom. inval.

• APC Comment: Treated as Sarga plumosa in Qld.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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