Griffith, W. (1851), Notulae ad Plantas Asiaticas 3: 29 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Pseudoraphis brunoniana (Griff.) Griff.

Pilger, R.K.F. (1928), Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem: 210 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 77 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek pseudos, false; rhaphis, a needle; alluding to the solitary bristle"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 238 [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: 527 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 211-214 [secondary reference]

common name: Mud-grasses [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 52 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 482 [secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 195-199 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 213-214 [secondary reference]

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Pseudoraphis. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1212 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Pseudoraphis. Flora of New South Wales 4: 490 [secondary reference]

common name: Mudgrasses [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 610 [secondary reference]

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: 319-321 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 94 (fig.), 357-358 [secondary reference]

common name: Mudgrasses [n/a]

• Etymology: "from the Greek for 'false' and 'needle'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 710 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, Vic

Morrone, O., Aagesen, L., Scataglini, M.A., Salariato, D.L., Denham, S.S., Chemisquy, M.A., Sede, S.M., Giussani, L.M., Kellog, E.A. & Zuloaga, F.O. (2012), Phylogeny of the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae): integrating plastid DNA sequences and morphology into a new classification. Cladistics 28(4): 349 [secondary reference]

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