Swartz, O. (1788), Nova Genera & Species Plantarum seu Prodromus: 1, 21 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1988) No. 194).

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 210 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 132 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Asprella Schreb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Asperella Humb. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 612 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 528 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 273-276 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 47 [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: 163 [secondary reference]

• Type: Leersia oryzoides (L.) Sw., typ. cons.

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 101 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 48, 210 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Homalocenchrus Mieg nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Asprella Schreb. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Leersia. Flora of New South Wales 4: 650 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 366 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Poaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 305 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 93 (fig.), 97 (fig.), 292 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: 'named after J.D. Leers"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 474 [secondary reference]

Kodela, P.G. & Weiller, C.M. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Leersia. Flora of Australia 44A: 360 [secondary reference]

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Homalocenchrus Mieg nom. rej. taxonomic synonym: Asprella Schreb. legitimate

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

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