Candolle, A.P. de in Candolle, A.P. de & Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de (1805), Flore Francaise Edn. 3, 3: 32 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1983) No. 280).

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 176 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (February 1862), Thalamiflorae. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria 1: 113, 503 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Amphibromus Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Monachather Steud. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 5 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 627 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 73 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Danthoine, a French botanist."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 105 [secondary reference]

common name: Silvertop [n/a] common name: Wallaby Grass [n/a]

• Etymology: "After Etienne Danthoine, a botanist of Marseilles"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 54 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (18 January 1956), A revision of the Australian species of Danthonia. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 2(3): 249-325 [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: 540 [secondary reference]

Zotov, V.D. (1963), Synopsis of the grass subfamily Arundinoideae in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 1(1): 87 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 54-56 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 38-43 [secondary reference]

Connor, H.E. & Edgar, E. (1978), New Zealand Journal of Botany 16: - [secondary reference]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 131 [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: 439 [secondary reference]

Voss, E.G. (1983), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Sydney, 1981. Regnum Vegetabile 111: 315 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Danthonia spicata (L.) Roemer & Schultes (typ. cons.)

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: 951-952 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 139 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 396 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sieglingia Bernh. nom. rej.

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Danthonia. Flora of New South Wales 4: 548-549 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Rytidosperma Steud. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Notodanthonia Zotov legitimate common name: Wallaby grasses [n/a]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 304-306 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 527-529 [secondary reference]

Linder, H.P. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Trib. Danthonieae. Flora of Australia 44B: 29 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sieglingia Bernh. nom. rej.

• APC Dist.: Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 255 [secondary reference]

Linder, H.P., Baeza, M., Barker, N.P., Galley, C., Humphreys, A.M., Lloyd, K.M., Orlovich, D.A., Pirie, M.D., Simon, B.K., Walsh, N. & Verboom, G.A. (2010), A generic classification of the Danthonioideae (Poaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 97(3): 347-349 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Sieglingia Bernh. nom. rej.

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

orthographic variant: Danthoinia F.Muell. orth. var. orthographic variant: Danthonea T.Post & Kuntze orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Sieglingia Bernh. nom. rej.

• APC Dist.: Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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