Domin, K. (1911), First contribution to the flora of Australia. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 9: 553 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. South Wales, Queensland and North Australia."

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 623 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 350, Fig. 77 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Sporobolus pulchellus R.Br. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(64): 140 misapplication: Sporobolus pulchellus R.Br. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 623 misapplication: Sporobolus pulchellus R.Br. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Plants of North-Western Australia. Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 19 misapplication: Sporobolus pulchellus R.Br. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 133 misapplication: Sporobolus pulchellus R.Br. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1883), A Synopsis of the Queensland Flora: 651 misapplication: Sporobolus pulchellus R.Br. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 224 misapplication: Sporobolus pulchellus R.Br. legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1889), Useful Native Plants of Australia: 109 misapplication: Sporobolus pulchellus R.Br. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1890), Catalogue of the Indigenous and Naturalised Plants of Queensland: 56 misapplication: Sporobolus pulchellus R.Br. legitimate by Maiden, J.H. (1898), A manual of the grasses of New South Wales: 162 misapplication: Sporobolus pulchellus R.Br. legitimate by Bailey, F.M. (1902), The Queensland Flora 6: 1881

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 95 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 162 [secondary reference]

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 320 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 223 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. in Black, J.M. (1978), Flora of South Australia Edn. 3, 1: 209 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 467-468, Fig. 594 [secondary reference]

common name: Australian dropseed [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 37 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 67 [secondary reference]

Baaijens, G.J. & Veldkamp, J.F. (1991), Sporobolus (Gramineae) in Malesia. Blumea 35(2): 451 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Sporobolus. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1223, Fig. 346B [secondary reference]

common name: Australian Dropseed [n/a]

Simon, B.K. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (15 August 1999), Revision of the genus Sporobolus (Poaceae, Chloridoideae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 12(3): 386, Figs. 1C, 4B [secondary reference]

Simon, B.K. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Sporobolus. Flora of Australia 44B: 326, Plate 49, 459 APC [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Upper Victoria R., N.T., F.Mueller s.n.; lecto (here chosen): K (photo BRI)."

common name: Dropseed [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Sporobolus actinocladus (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Black, J.M. (1978), Flora of South Australia Edn. 3, 1: 209

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Sporobolus actinocladus (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Black, J.M. (1978), Flora of South Australia Edn. 3, 1: 209

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