Michael, P.W. & Vickery, J.W. (23 December 1980), Three new annual species of Echinochloa from northern Australia. Telopea 2(1): 25 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "WESTERN AUSTRALIA: grown at Kimberley Research Station, E.C.B. Langfield 211, dispatched 10.1950 (CANB 24391). ISOTYPE: 24391a." [Isotype cited in protologue as CANB 24391a has been renumbered CANB 24132 as at Aug. 2013.]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 32 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 62 [secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 78-79 [secondary reference]

Macfarlane, T.D. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Echinochloa. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1153 [secondary reference]

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

pro parte misapplication: Echinochloa stagnina (Retz.) P.Beauv. legitimate by Blake, S.T. (29 August 1952), The identification and distribution of some Cyperaceae and Gramineae, chiefly from Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 62(10): 91

• APC Dist.: WA, Qld

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