Retzius, A.J. (1786), Observationes Botanicae 4: 17 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Colitur in hortis Malabarorum. Honor König."

• Comment: Apparently described from a plant which may have been of Australian origin.

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 483 [secondary reference]

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

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 258 [secondary reference]

common name: Giant Panic Grass [n/a]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 259 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Panicum cymbiforme Hughes legitimate

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 524 [secondary reference]

common name: Giant Panic [n/a]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 180-181 [secondary reference]

common name: Blue Panic [n/a] common name: Giant Panic Grass [n/a]

• Text: "Bentham, Fl. Austral. 7 (1878) 483, incorrectly referred specimens of Panicum cymbiforme Hughes to P. antidotale."

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 118 [secondary reference]

common name: Giant Panic Grass [n/a] common name: Blue Panic [n/a] common name: Giant Panic [n/a]

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

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 35 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 65 [secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 121 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 196-197, Fig. 31D [secondary reference]

common name: Blue Panic [n/a] common name: Giant Panic [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Panicum. Flora of New South Wales 4: 488 [secondary reference]

common name: Blue Panic [n/a] common name: Giant Panic Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 314 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Blue Panic [n/a] common name: Giant Panic Grass [n/a]

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

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (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): 349 [secondary reference]

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