Willdenow, C.L. (1809), Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis 2: 1029 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 72, 160 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 134 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eleusine Gaertn. legitimate

Hitchcock, A.S. (20 March 1920), The genera of grasses of the United States: with special reference to the economic species. Bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C 772: 175 [secondary reference]

• Type: Dactyloctenium aegyptiacum Willd.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 85 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek daktylos, finger; ktenion, a little comb: the spikes are digitate and comblike."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 133 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek daktylos, finger; ktenion, a little comb; the spikes are digitate and comb-like"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 210 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 40 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 462 [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: 951 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 176 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Dactyloctenium. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1144 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 475 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Dactyloctenium. Flora of New South Wales 4: 527 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 570 [secondary reference]

Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Dactyloctenium. Flora of Australia 44B: 315 APC [secondary reference]

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

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 100 (fig.), 194-195 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Greek words for 'finger' and 'little comb'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 252 [secondary reference]

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