Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 28 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 17 [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: 171 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Anthoxanthum odoratum L.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 63 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek anthos, flower; xanthos, yellow: colour of the panicle after flowering."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 81 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek anthos, flower; xanthos, yellow; colour of the panicle after flowering"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 26 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 529 [secondary reference]

Borrill, M. (1962), The Experimental Taxonomy of Anthoxanthum species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 173: 106-109 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 62 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 282-283 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 36 [secondary reference]

Schouten, Y. & Veldkamp, J.F. (1985), A revision of Anthoxanthum including Hierochloe (Gramineae) in Malesia and Thailand. Blumea 30(2): 319-351 [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: 939 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 124 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 469 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Anthoxanthum. Flora of New South Wales 4: 634 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 459 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 249 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 463 APC [secondary reference]

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

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 399 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 86 (fig.), 123 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Greek words for 'flower' and 'yellow'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 52 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hierochloe R.Br. nom. cons.

Weiller, C.M., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Anthoxanthum. Flora of Australia 44A: 143-144 [secondary reference]

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