Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1898 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Irvinebank, F. Bennett; Brisbane River, J.F. Bailey (this specimen was obtained in a garden and may have been obtained attached to other plants from the north)."

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

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 175 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. legitimate

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