Stapf, O. (1897), The botanical history of the uva, pampas grass and their allies (continued). Gardeners' Chronicle. London. Series 3 22: 378, 396 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

taxonomic synonym: Moorea Lem. nom. rej.

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1983) No. 329).

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 130 [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: 543 [secondary reference]

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

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: 948 [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: 316 [secondary reference]

• Type: Cortaderia selloana (Schultes & J.H.Schultes) Asch. & Graebner

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cortaderia. Flora of New South Wales 4: 565 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 318-319 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 546-547 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 408 [secondary reference]

Linder, H.P. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Trib. Danthonieae. Flora of Australia 44B: 22, 24 APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Moorea Lem. nom. rej.

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (doubtfully naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 102 (fig.), 188-189 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "a native Argentinian word meaning 'cutting' - a reference to the leaf margins"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 219 [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): 341 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Moorea Lem. nom. rej.

Testoni, D. & Linder, H.P. (2017), Synoptic taxonomy of Cortaderia Stapf (Danthonioideae, Poaceae). Phytokeys 76: 43-44 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Moorea Lem. nom. rej.

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