Linnaeus, C. [filius] (1779), Nova Graminum Genera: 23 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1988) No. 127). Index Nominum Genericorum 3 (1979) 1533 give Linnaeus, filius, Dis. Bot. Gram. Gen. (1780) 23 n.v. however the I.C.B.N. still retains the Suppl. Pl. reference.

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 206 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Coelorachis Brongn. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 617 [secondary reference]

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

• Etymology: "After C.F. Rottboll, professor of botany at Copenhagan, 1727-1797."

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 308 [secondary reference]

Roberty, G.E. (July 1960), Monographie systématique des Andropogonées du globe. Boissiera 9: 47-86 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 19(1): 18 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 52 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 495 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 161 [secondary reference]

• Type: Rottboellia exaltata L.f. (typ. cons.)

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 249 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 510 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Rottboellia. Flora of New South Wales 4: 429 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 498 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 92 (fig.), 361 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: 'named after C.F.Rottboell"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 749 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Rottbolla L.f. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: ChI, NT, Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised)

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