Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 58 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Virginia, Jamaica."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(67): 191 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1877), Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland: 15 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 257 [secondary reference]

common name: Witch 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: 524 [secondary reference]

common name: Witchgrass [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 66 [secondary reference]

common name: Witch Grass [n/a]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 172-173 [secondary reference]

common name: Witchgrass [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 118 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 48 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 35 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Gramineae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 1968 [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: 971 [secondary reference]

common name: Witchgrass [n/a]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 125-126 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Panicum capillare var. occidentale Rydb. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Panicum. Flora of New South Wales 4: 486-487 [secondary reference]

common name: Witchgrass [n/a]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 335 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 586 [secondary reference]

common name: Common Millet [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 424 [secondary reference]

common name: Witchgrass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 314-315 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Witchgrass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Panicum capillare L. var. capillare legitimate taxonomic synonym: Panicum capillare var. occidentale Rydb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Panicum capillare var. brevifolium Vasey ex Rydb. & Shear legitimate

• APC Comment: Panicum capillare var. capillare and P. capillare var. occidentale are recognised as distinct taxa in NSW and Tas.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Panicum hillmanii Chase legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Gramineae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 1968

Baker, M.L., Wapstra, M. & Lawrence, D. (20 August 2019), An annotated census of the lesser-known naturalised plants of Tasmania. Muelleria 38: 64 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Panicum capillare L. var. capillare legitimate taxonomic synonym: Panicum capillare var. occidentale Rydb. legitimate common name: witchgrass [n/a]

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