Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 76 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 33 [secondary reference]

Labillardière, J.J.H. de (1805), Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen 1(2-4): 23 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 135 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 633 [secondary reference]

Nash, G.V. in Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), Gramineae. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 274 [secondary reference]

• Type: Bromus secalinus L.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 82 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek bromos, some kind of oat."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 128 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek bromos, some kind of oat"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 98 [secondary reference]

Wagnon, H.K. (1952), A Revision of the Genus Bromus, Section Bromopsis, of North America. Brittonia 7: 415-480 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 548 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 68 [secondary reference]

Smith, P.M. (1967), The Bromus mollis aggregate in Britain. Watsonia 6(6): 327-344 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 29-32 [secondary reference]

Smith, P.M. (1970), Taxonomy and nomenclature of the brome grasses (Bromus L. s.l.). Notes from the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh 30: 327-344 [secondary reference]

Smith, P.M. (1972), Serology and species relationships in annual bromes (Bromus L. sect. Bromus). Annals of Botany new ser., 36(1): 1-30 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 38-39 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 432 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 944 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 116-117 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 91, 394 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ceratochloa DC. ex P.Beauv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Serrafalcus Parl. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Bromus. Flora of New South Wales 4: 628-629 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 465-466 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 286-287 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 501-502 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 406 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 78 (fig.), 101 (fig.), 102 (fig.), 106 (fig.), 172-174 [secondary reference]

common name: Brome Grasses [n/a]

• Etymology: "a Geek name for 'oats'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 123 [secondary reference]

Weiller, C.M. & Henwood, M.J. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Tribe Bromeae. Flora of Australia 44A: 80 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised)

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

taxonomic synonym: Serrafalcus Parl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Anisantha K.Koch legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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