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

basionym: Eleusine radulans R.Br. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 13 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 376 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine radulans R.Br. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Eleusine cruciata Lam. nom. illeg. by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(63): 111 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 615 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 134 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1883), The plants indigenous around Sharks Bay and its vicinity. Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 23 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora: 660 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1889), Useful Native Plants of Australia: 85 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine cruciata Lam. nom. illeg. by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 225 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 57 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine cruciata Lam. nom. illeg. by Tate, R. (1890), A Handbook of the Flora of Extratropical South Australia: 197, 269 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine cruciata Lam. nom. illeg. by Moore, C. (1893), Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales: 491 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine cruciata Lam. nom. illeg. by Tate, R. in Spencer, W.B. (ed.) (March 1896), Botany. Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia 3: 184 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1898), A manual of the grasses of New South Wales: 154 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1897 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Turner, F. (1903), Botany of the Darlin, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 441 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Turner, F. (1904), Botany of south-western New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29: 180 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Turner, F. (1905), Botany of north-western New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 30: 88 pro parte misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 628 misapplication: Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von in Landsborough, W. (1862), A systematic arrangement of the plants noticed around the Gulf of Carpentaria, from the Roper to the Gilbert River, including those collected during Mr. Landsborough's expedition. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria in Search of Burke and Wills: 122

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 133, Fig. 181 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine radulans R.Br. legitimate misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 615 common name: Button Grass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine radulans R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium australiense Scribn. legitimate common name: Button Grass [n/a]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 198 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine radulans R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. & Murray, L.R. (1963), Poisonous Plants of the Northern Territory: 8, 27, Fig. 6 [secondary reference]

common name: Button Grass [n/a]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 220 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 79 [secondary reference]

common name: Finger Grass [n/a] common name: Coast Button Grass [n/a] common name: Button Grass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine radulans R.Br. legitimate

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 462-463, Fig. 587 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine radulans R.Br. legitimate common name: finger grass [n/a] common name: Button grass [n/a]

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

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 141 [secondary reference]

common name: Button grass [n/a]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 61 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine radulans R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium australiense Scribn. legitimate misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 615 common name: Button Grass [n/a]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Dactyloctenium. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1144-1145, Fig. 328C [secondary reference]

common name: Button grass [n/a]

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

common name: Finger Grass [n/a] common name: Button Grass [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 570, Fig. 114a-b [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine radulans R.Br. legitimate common name: Button-grass [n/a] common name: Finger-grass [n/a]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 218 [secondary reference]

common name: Button Grass [n/a]

Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Dactyloctenium. Flora of Australia 44B: 318-319, Fig. 54D-E [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine radulans R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dactyloctenium aegyptium var. radulans (R.Br.) Hack. ex Thell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium radulans f. conglobatum Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium radulans f. aristiglume Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium radulans f. pumilio Domin legitimate misapplication: Eleusine aristata Ehrenb. ex Hook.f. nom. illeg. by Bailey, F.M. (1909), Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 23(6): 303 common name: Button Grass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Eleusine radulans R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dactyloctenium aegyptium var. radulans (R.Br.) Hack. ex Thell. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Dactyloctenium radulans (R.Br.) P.Beauv. f. radulans legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium radulans f. conglobatum Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium radulans f. aristiglume Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium radulans f. pumilio Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dactyloctenium radulans f. typicum Domin nom. inval. misapplication: Eleusine aegyptia (L.) Desf. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 615 misapplication: Eleusine aristata Ehrenb. ex Hook.f. nom. illeg. by Bailey, F.M. (1909), Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 23(6): 303 misapplication: Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 133-134

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic (native and 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: Finger Grass [n/a] common name: Button Grass [n/a]

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