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

basionym: Arundo karka Retz. legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 384 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Arundo karka Retz. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 133 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Arundo karka Retz. legitimate

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 200 [secondary reference]

Clayton, W.D. (1967), Studies in the Gramineae: XIV. Kew Bulletin 21(1): 116-117 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 223 [secondary reference]

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

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

nomenclatural synonym: Arundo karka Retz. legitimate common name: Tropical 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]

Bennett, E.M. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Phragmites. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1206, Fig. 341B [secondary reference]

Veldkamp, J.F. (1992), Miscellaneous notes on southeast Asian Gramineae. VII. Blumea 37(1): 233 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Phragmites vallatorius Veldkamp nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 310 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 222 [secondary reference]

common name: Tropical Reed [n/a]

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: 319 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Phragmites vallatorius Veldkamp nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Linder, H.P. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Trib. Arundineae. Flora of Australia 44B: 8 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Phragmites vallatorius Veldkamp nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Arundo karka Retz. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Phragmites vallatoria Veldkamp orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Phragmites vallatorius Veldkamp nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Arundo vallatoria L. nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld

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