Willdenow, C.L. (1801), Zehn neue gattungen von gewächsen. Der Gesellschaft Naturforschenden Freunde zu Berlin, Neue Schriften 3: 440 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Zoysia pungens Willd.

Müller, J.K.(C.)A.(F.W.) (1855), Recensio generis Graminearum Zoysia. Botanische Zeitung 13(16): 265 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 131 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 616 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 65 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Karl von Zois, 1756-1800, a landed proprietor and plant collector of Carniola"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 520 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 302-303 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 55 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 162 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 185 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 481-482 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 505 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 332 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 581 [secondary reference]

Nightingale, M.E., Simon, B.K. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Zoysia. Flora of Australia 44B: 263 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: CoI, ChI (naturalised), SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 83 (fig.), 91 (fig.), 402 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "named after a German plant collector"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 925 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Zoisia J.M.Black orth. var.

• APC Dist.: CoI, ChI (naturalised), SA, Qld, NSW, Vic, Tas

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