Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 55 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 29 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 189 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 130 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Digitaria Haller nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Chamaeraphis R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Isachne R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Coridochloa Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Oplismenus b. Echinochloa Endl. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 6 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Paractaenum P.Beauv. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 218 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Digitaria Haller nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Chamaeraphis R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Isachne R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Paractaenum P.Beauv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Echinochloa P.Beauv. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Coridochloa Nees legitimate

Hitchcock, A.S. & Chase, M.A. (1910), Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 15: 14 [secondary reference]

• Type: Panicum miliaceum L.

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 603 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 58 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name of Millet; P. miliaceum, the grain of which was mixed with bread; panis in early times."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 73 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name of Millet (P. miliaceum), the grain of which was mixed with bread (panis) in early times."

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 254-256 [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: 523 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 64-66 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 155-187 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1145 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 48 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 471 [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: 970-971 [secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 118-146 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 191-192 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 277 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Monachne P.Beauv. legitimate

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Panicum. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1195-1196 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 483-484 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Panicum. Flora of New South Wales 4: 482 [secondary reference]

common name: Panics [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 480-481 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 333 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 584-586 [secondary reference]

Veldkamp, J.F. (1996), Revision of Panicum and Whiteochloa in Malesia (Gramineae - Paniceae). Blumea 41(1): 183 [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: 312 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 424 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 95 (fig.), 98 (fig.), 312-313 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "the Latin name for 'millet'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 627 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Megathyrsus (Pilg.) B.K.Simon & S.W.L.Jacobs legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Paniculum Ard. orth. var.

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

Morrone, O., Aagesen, L., Scataglini, M.A., Salariato, D.L., Denham, S.S., Chemisquy, M.A., Sede, S.M., Giussani, L.M., Kellog, E.A. & Zuloaga, F.O. (2012), Phylogeny of the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae): integrating plastid DNA sequences and morphology into a new classification. Cladistics 28(4): 350 [secondary reference]

Zuloaga, F.O., Salariato, D.L. & Scataglini, A. (21 February 2018), Molecular phylogeny of Panicum s. str. (Poaceae, Panicoideae, Paniceae) and insights into its biogeography and evolution. PLoS ONE 13(2): 19 [online only] [secondary reference]

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