Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 85 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 37 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 179 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 135 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Agropyron Gaertn. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 633 [secondary reference]

Hitchcock, A.S. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 121 [secondary reference]

• Type: Triticum aestivum L.

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 135 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin for wheat"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 197 [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: 550 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 56 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 822, 1145 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 55 [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: 996 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 136 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Triticum. Flora of New South Wales 4: 600-601 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 303 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 520 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 101 (fig.), 391 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "the Latin word for 'wheat'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 875-876 [secondary reference]

Henwood, M.J. & Weiller, C.M. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Triticum. Flora of Australia 44A: 105 APC [secondary reference]

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

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