Link, J.H.F. (1827), Hortus Regius Botanicus Berolinensis 1: 213 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Cenchrus ciliaris L. legitimate

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 255 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Cenchrus ciliaris L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pennisetum cenchroides Rich. nom. illeg.

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 528 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 284 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cenchrus ciliaris L. legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 46 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cenchrus ciliaris L. legitimate

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 255 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cenchrus ciliaris L. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cenchrus ciliaris L. legitimate

Simon, B.K. (7 December 2010), New taxa, nomenclatural changes and notes on Australian grasses in the tribe Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae). Austrobaileya 8(2): 191 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cenchrus ciliaris L. legitimate

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