Camus, A.A. (30 December 1921), Les Andropogonees Odorantes des Regions Tropicales. Revue de Botanique Appliquée 1 1: 290 [comb. et stat. nov.]

basionym: Andropogon exaltatus var. ambiguus Hack. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon ambiguus Steud. nom. illeg.

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 19(1): 55 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Cymbopogon exaltatus (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 220 [secondary reference]

Blake, S.T. (1974), Revision of the genera Cymbopogon and Schizachyrium (Gramineae) in Australia. Contributions from the Queensland Herbarium 17: 39-44 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon ambiguus Steud. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon exaltatus var. ambiguus Hack. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cymbopogon exaltatus var. ambiguus (Hack.) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon spectabilis Hack. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Cymbopogon exaltatus var. gracilior Domin legitimate

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 129 [secondary reference]

Soenarko, S. (1977), The genus Cymbopogon Sprengel (Gramineae). Reinwardtia 9(3): 295-298 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon ambiguus Steud. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon exaltatus var. ambiguus Hack. legitimate

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 77 [secondary reference]

common name: Scented Grass [n/a] common name: Scent Grass [n/a] common name: Scented Oilgrass [n/a] common name: Lemon-scented Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 40 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 489, Fig. 621 [secondary reference]

common name: scented oilgrass [n/a] common name: Scent grass [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 32 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 61 [secondary reference]

Simon, B.K. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cymbopogon. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1142, Fig. 321D [secondary reference]

common name: Scentgrass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 445 [secondary reference]

common name: Lemon Grass [n/a]

Hyland, B.P.M., Gray, B. & Elick, R.W. in Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (1994), Appendix I: Provisional Species List. Fruits of the Rainforest: 310 [secondary reference]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 217 [secondary reference]

common name: Scent Grass [n/a]

Moore, P. (2005), A guide to plants of inland Australia: 206 (photo, map) [secondary reference]

common name: Scented Oilgrass [n/a] common name: Scent Grass [n/a] common name: Lemon Grass [n/a] common name: Lemon-scented Grass [n/a]

• Etymology: Doubtful, uncertain.

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 190 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Lemongrass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon ambiguus Steud. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon exaltatus var. ambiguus Hack. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cymbopogon exaltatus var. ambiguus (Hack.) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon spectabilis Hack. nom. inval., pro syn. taxonomic synonym: Cymbopogon exaltatus var. gracilior Domin legitimate misapplication: Cymbopogon exaltatus (R.Br.) Domin legitimate by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 62, Fig. 61 misapplication: Cymbopogon exaltatus (R.Br.) Domin legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 338

• APC Comment: Hybrids between Cymbopogon ambiguus and C. queenslandicus are known from Qld.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

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