Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 72 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 33 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 536 [secondary reference]

Nash, G.V. in Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), Gramineae. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 251 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Cynosurus cristatus L.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 76 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek kynos, of a dog; oura, tail: shape of the panicle."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 114 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek kynos, of a dog; oura, tail; shape of the panicle"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 44 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 22-23 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 40 [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: 950 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 113 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cynosurus. Flora of New South Wales 4: 605 [secondary reference]

common name: Dog's tail grasses [n/a]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 206 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 409 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 409 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 81 (fig.), 86 (fig.), 193 [secondary reference]

common name: Dog's Tail Grasses [n/a]

• Etymology: "from the Greek words for 'dog' and 'tail'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 247 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Poa. Flora of Australia 44A: 344 APC [secondary reference]

common name: Dog's Tail Grasses [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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