Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 186 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

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

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 611 [secondary reference]

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

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 771 [basionym]

basionym of: Chloropsis pumilio (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 627, Fig. 598 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. (1972), A revision of Australian Chlorideae (Gramineae). Australian Journal of Botany Supplementary Series 5: 18-20 [secondary reference]

• Type: as "Northern Territory: North Coast, R. Brown (6245) (holotype in BM, isotypes in K, E)."].

taxonomic synonym: Chloris pallida Hack. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chloris ruderalis f. biaristulata Domin legitimate

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]

Anderson, D.E. (1974), Brigham Young University. Science Bulletin. Biological Series 19 (2): 80-82 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chloris pallida Hack. legitimate

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 464 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 31 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chloris ruderalis Domin legitimate

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Chloris. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1140 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chloropsis pumilio (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chloris pallida Hack. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chloris ruderalis Domin legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 217 [secondary reference]

Nightingale, M.E., Lazarides, M. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Chloris. Flora of Australia 44B: 279, 281, Figs 42C, 44c [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chloropsis pumilio (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chloris pallida Hack. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chloris ruderalis f. robusta Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chloris ruderalis f. biaristulata Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chloris ruderalis Domin legitimate

Nightingale, M.E., Lazarides, M. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Chloris. Flora of Australia 44B: 281 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Chloris lobata Lazarides legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 611

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chloropsis pumilio (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chloris pallida Hack. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chloris ruderalis f. robusta Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chloris ruderalis f. biaristulata Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chloris ruderalis Domin f. ruderalis legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chloris ruderalis Domin legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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