Rafinesque, C.S. (August 1819), Des nouveaux genres de plantes observes en 1817 et 1818 dans l'interieur des Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts 89: 103 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Critesion geniculatum Raf. (nom. illeg.)

Löve, Á. (1980), Chromosome number reports LXVII. Taxon 29(2-3): 350 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 138 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 118 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Hordeum L. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Hordeum. Flora of New South Wales 4: 598 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Hordeum L. legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 515 [secondary reference]

Henwood, M.J. & Weiller, C.M. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Hordeum. Flora of Australia 44A: 110 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Hordeum L. legitimate

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