Camus, A.A. (30 December 1921), Les Andropogonees Odorantes des Regions Tropicales. Revue de Botanique Appliquée 1 1: 279 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Andropogon refractus R.Br. legitimate

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 194 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon refractus f. euryphyllus Domin legitimate

Vickery, J.W. (1961), Gramineae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 19(1): 52-53 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon refractus R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon refractus var. tropicus Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon refractus var. luxurians Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon refractus var. typicus Domin nom. inval. common name: Barbed-wire Grass [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 519 [secondary reference]

common name: Barb-wire Grass [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 72, Fig. 73. [secondary reference]

common name: Barbed Wire Grass [n/a]

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: 57-61 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon refractus R.Br. legitimate

Soenarko, S. (1977), The genus Cymbopogon Sprengel (Gramineae). Reinwardtia 9(3): 282-284 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon refractus R.Br. legitimate

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 78 [secondary reference]

common name: Kangaroo Grass [n/a] common name: Turpentine Grass [n/a] common name: Barbed-wire Grass [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Andropogon refractus R.Br. legitimate

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]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 263, Fig. 40B [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon refractus R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon refractus var. tropicus Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon refractus var. luxurians Domin legitimate common name: Barb Wire Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 444-445 [secondary reference]

common name: Barded Wire Grass [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 498 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon refractus R.Br. legitimate

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]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 624-265, Fig. 125k-l [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon refractus R.Br. legitimate common name: Barbed-wire Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 191 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Barbed Wire Grass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon refractus R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Anatherum refractum (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Sorgum refractum (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon refractus R.Br. var. refractus legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Andropogon refractus R.Br. f. refractus legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Cymbopogon nardus subvar. refractus (R.Br.) Roberty legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon tahitensis Hook. & Arn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon refractus var. typicus Domin nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Andropogon refractus var. tropicus Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon refractus f. euryphyllus Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Andropogon refractus var. luxurians Domin legitimate

• APC Comment: Hybrids between Cymbopogon refractus and C. bombycinus and between C. refractus and C. obtectus are known from Qld.
• APC Dist.: NT, Qld, NSW, NI, ACT, Vic

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