Cirillo, D.M.L. (1792), Plantarum Rariorum regni Neapolitani: 26, t. 11 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Imperata arundinacea Cirillo

Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(6): 405 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 131 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 616 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 54 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Ferrante Imperato, a Neapolitan botanist, 1550-1625."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 58 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Ferrante Imperato, a Neapolitan botanist, 1550-1625"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 312 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 19(1): 23-25 [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: 517 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 70 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 47 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 244 [secondary reference]

Simon, B.K. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Imperata. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1179 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 503 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Imperata. Flora of New South Wales 4: 432 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 494 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 353 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 618 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Poaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 299 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 99 (fig.), 283 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: 'named after a Neapolitan botanist"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 429-430 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Imperatia T.Post & Kuntze orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT, SA, Qld, NSW, LHI (naturalised), ACT, Vic, Tas

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