Launert, G.O.E. (1970), Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung Munchen 8: 153 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "South West Africa: Okahandja District: Pad Okahandja-Otjisazu, 12 km, 20.3.1912, DINTER 2544 (Z, holotype; M, isotype)."

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 128-129 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Panicum laevifolium var. contractum Pilg. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 196, Fig. 31C [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Panicum laevifolium var. contractum Pilg. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Panicum. Flora of New South Wales 4: 489 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Panicum laevifolium var. contractum Pilg. legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 587-588, Fig. 119e [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Panicum laevifolium var. contractum Pilg. legitimate common name: Sweet Panic [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 316 (fig.) [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Panicum laevifolium var. contractum Pilg. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym: Panicum laevifolium var. contractum Pilg. legitimate misapplication: Panicum schinzii Hack. legitimate by Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 335

• APC Dist.: NT (naturalised), Qld (formerly naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (August 2017), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2016 census to 2017 census. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2017: 24 [secondary reference]

Baker, M.L., Wapstra, M. & Lawrence, D. (20 August 2019), An annotated census of the lesser-known naturalised plants of Tasmania. Muelleria 38: 64, Fig. 9 [secondary reference]

common name: sweet panic [n/a]

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