Swartz, O. (1788), Nova Genera & Species Plantarum seu Prodromus: 26 [primary reference]

• Type: Jamaica.

Buse, L.H. in Miquel, F.A.W. (August 1854), Gramineae. Plantae Junghuhnianae 3: 359 [basionym]

basionym of: Schizachyrium brevifolium (Sw.) Nees ex Buse legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1885), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 2: 4 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Andropogon fragilis R.Br. legitimate

• Comment: Mueller lists "Andropogon fragilis = A. brevifolis ...". Since Andropogon fragilis R.Br. was previously accepted by Mueller on p. 132 of the Systematic Census (1882) and also in Mueller's Second Systematic Census p. 222, A. brevifolis Sw. is here treated as being an accepted name in this Supplement with A. fragilis R.Br. in synonymy.

Hackel, E. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. & Candolle, A.C.P. (April 1889), Andropogoneae. Monographiae Phanerogamarum 6: 364 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 222 [secondary reference]

Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1908), Notes from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. No. 13. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33(2): 319 [secondary reference]

Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1916), A Census of New South Wales Plants: 14 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 5 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 19(1): 50 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Schizachyrium obliqueberbe (Hack.) A.Camus legitimate by Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1908), Notes from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. No. 13. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33(2): 319

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Schizachyrium obliqueberbe (Hack.) A.Camus legitimate by Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1916), A Census of New South Wales Plants: 14

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