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• Type: "Andropogon formosus, Hort. (partly?). Nile Land. Abyssinia: Tigre; without precise locality, Schimper, 1009!"

Clayton, W.D. (1969), A revision of the genus Hyparrhenia. Kew Bulletin Additional Series 2: 1-196 (117) [secondary reference]

Anonymous (1983), Annual Report for 1982/83. Annual Report of the Botany Branch and the Queensland Herbarium: 26 [secondary reference]

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