Peterson, P.M., Romaschenko, K. & Herrera Arrieta, Y. (2015), A molecular phylogeny and classification of the Eleusininae with a new genus, Micrachne (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae). Taxon 64(3): 458 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Brachyachne ambigua Ohwi legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (16 March 2017), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2016. Nuytsia 28: 124 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Brachyachne ambigua Ohwi legitimate

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (22 March 2018), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2017. Nuytsia 29: 6 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Excluded taxon. Only known from cultivated material in WA. See Nightingale et al. (2005) [M.E.Nightingale et al., Fl. Aust. 44B: 294-300 (2005)]"

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

nomenclatural synonym: Brachyachne ambigua Ohwi legitimate misapplication: Microchloa convergens (F.Muell.) Domin legitimate by Backer, C.A. (1928), Handboek voor de Flora van Java 2: 218

• APC Dist.: NT (naturalised)

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