Swartz, O. (1797), Flora Indiae Occidentalis 1: 200 [tax. nov.]

Hooker, J.D. (29 December 1859), Introductory Essay. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(11): xlviii [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1867), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(43): 85 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1877), Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland: 10 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 134 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 225 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (1890), A Handbook of the Flora of Extratropical South Australia: 194, 267 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. in Spencer, W.B. (ed.) (March 1896), Botany. Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia 3: 184 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 628 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 370 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 369 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Chloris virgata Sw. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1867), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(43): 85

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Chloris virgata Sw. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 134

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Chloris virgata Sw. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 225

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Chloris virgata Sw. legitimate by Tate, R. (1890), A Handbook of the Flora of Extratropical South Australia: 194, 267

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Chloris virgata Sw. legitimate by Tate, R. in Spencer, W.B. (ed.) (March 1896), Botany. Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia 3: 184

Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 3: 85 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 11 [secondary reference]

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: 197 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. (1972), A revision of Australian Chlorideae (Gramineae). Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series 5: 9-11 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 220 [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: 61 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Chloris. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1139 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chloris barbata f. divaricata Kuntze legitimate common name: Purpletop Chloris [n/a]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 479 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Andropogon barbatus L. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. common name: Finger Grass [n/a]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 24 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 216 [secondary reference]

common name: Purpletop Chloris [n/a] common name: Rhodes Grass [n/a] common name: Windmill Grass [n/a]

Nightingale, M.E., Lazarides, M. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Chloris. Flora of Australia 44B: 273-274, Plate 42, Figs 41E, 43A APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Andropogon barbatus L. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Chloris inflata Link legitimate common name: Purpletop Chloris [n/a]

• APC Comment: Previously treated as Chloris inflata in NT, SA and Qld. The correct name for the taxon is Australia unclear (see F.R.Fosberg, Taxon 25: 176-178, 1976 and J.T.Kartesz & K.N.Gandhi, Rhodora 94: 135-140, 1992).
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

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