Schumacher, H.C.F. & Thonning, P. (1827), Beskrivelse af Guineiske Planter: 44 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

Breakwell, E. (1923), Grasses and Fodder Plants of New South Wales: 89 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 281 [secondary reference]

common name: Napier Grass [n/a] common name: Elephant Grass [n/a] common name: Napier-grass [n/a] common name: Elephant-grass [n/a]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 246-247 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pennisetum macrostachyum Benth. legitimate common name: Napier Fodder [n/a] common name: Elephant Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 50 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Pennisetum macrostachyum Benth. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 36 [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: 976 [secondary reference]

common name: Napier Grass [n/a] common name: Elephant Grass [n/a]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 191-192 [secondary reference]

• Type: as "Ghana, Thionning (C, holo; BM)."

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 239 [secondary reference]

common name: Elephant Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 499, pl. 27 [secondary reference]

common name: Elephant Grass [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 492 [secondary reference]

common name: Elephant Grass [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised)

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 334 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Elephant Grass [n/a]

Chemisquy, M.A, Giussani, L.M., Scataglini, M.A. & Kellogg, E.A. (2010), Phylogenetic studies favour the unification of Pennisetum, Cenchrus and Odontelytrum (Poaceae): a combined nuclear, plastid and morphological analysis, and nomenclatural combinations in Cenchrus. Annals of Botany new ser., 106(1): 129 [basionym]

basionym of: Cenchrus purpureus (Schumach.) Morrone 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 purpureus (Schumach.) Morrone legitimate

Biggs, L.J. & Parker, C.M. (21 November 2013), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2012. Nuytsia 23: 516 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cenchrus purpureus (Schumach.) Morrone legitimate

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