Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(3): 212 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Afr. austr."

Simon, B.K. (June 1978), A preliminary check-list of Australian grasses. Technical Bulletin, Botany Branch, Queensland Department of Primary Industries 3: 26 [secondary reference]

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

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 32 [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]

common name: Sweet Smother Grass [n/a]

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

common name: Sweet Smother Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Dactyloctenium. Flora of New South Wales 4: 527-528, pl. 29 [secondary reference]

common name: Durban Grass [n/a]

Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Dactyloctenium. Flora of Australia 44B: 316, Plate 47, Fig. 55H [secondary reference]

common name: Sweet Smother Grass [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

misapplication: Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd. legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Gramineae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 1932

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

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

common name: Durban Grass [n/a]

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