Steudel, E.G. von (1841), Nomenclator Botanicus Edn. 2, 2(10): 324 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Arundo australis Cav. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phragmites explanatus Steud. nom. inval., pro syn.

Clayton, W.D. (1968), The correct name of the common reed. Taxon 17: 168 [secondary reference]

Turner, J.S., Smithers, C.N. & Hoogland, R.D. (1968), The conservation of Norfolk Island: 32 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 23, Fig. 10 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 207-210 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 132 [secondary reference]

common name: Cane Grass [n/a] common name: Phragmites [n/a] common name: Common Reed [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 50 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Phragmites communis Trin. legitimate

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 438, Fig. 565 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Arundo australis Cav. legitimate common name: Common reed [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 36 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 66 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 139, Fig. 22B [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Arundo australis Cav. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phragmites communis Trin. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phragmites vulgaris Crep. nom. superfl. common name: Common Reed [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Phragmites. Flora of New South Wales 4: 563-564, pl. 30 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Phragmites communis Trin. legitimate common name: Common Reed [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 474 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Arundo australis Cav. legitimate common name: Commom Reed [n/a]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 322, Fig. 106 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Arundo australis Cav. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arundo phragmites L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phragmites communis Trin. legitimate common name: Common Reed [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 549, Fig. 108e-f [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Arundo australis Cav. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phragmites communis Trin. legitimate common name: Common Reed [n/a]

• Vernacular: Djarg (Koorie name)

Linder, H.P. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Trib. Arundineae. Flora of Australia 44B: 8, Plate 1, Fig. 1A-C [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Arundo australis Cav. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arundo phragmites L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arundo vulgaris Lam. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Phragmites communis Trin. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phragmites vulgaris Crep. nom. superfl. common name: Common Reed [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Arundo australis Cav. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arundo vulgaris Lam. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Arundo australis Roem. & Schult. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Phragmites communis Trin. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phragmites vulgaris Crep. nom. superfl.

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

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Arundo donax L. legitimate by Turner, J.S., Smithers, C.N. & Hoogland, R.D. (1968), The conservation of Norfolk Island: 32

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 340 (fig.) [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Phragmites communis Trin. legitimate common name: Common Reed [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Arundo australis Cav. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. subsp. australis legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arundo phragmites L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Arundo vulgaris Lam. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Arundo australis Roem. & Schult. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Phragmites communis Trin. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phragmites explanatus Steud. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Phragmites vulgaris Crep. nom. superfl.

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

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