Parlatore, F. (1848), Flora Italiana 1: 366 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

• Comment: nom. cons. (ref. I.C.B.N. (1988) No. 384).

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 125 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "After Benedetto Puccinelli, 1808-1850, Professor of Botany at Lucca"

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 518 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 100 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 24, Fig.14. [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 24 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 52 [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: 984 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 165 [secondary reference]

• Type: Puccinellia distans (L.) Parl. (typ. cons.)

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 51 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Atropis (Trin.) Rupr. ex Griseb. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 462-463 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Puccinellia. Flora of New South Wales 4: 606 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 204-205 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 411 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 433 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 106 (fig.), 359 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "named after an Italian Professor of Botany"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 717 [secondary reference]

Williams, A.R., Weiller, C.M. & Walsh, N.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Puccinellia. Flora of Australia 44A: 266 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), ACT, Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised), MI

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Poa sect. Atropis Trin. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Atropis (Trin.) Rupr. ex Griseb. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Glyceria sect. Atropis (Trin.) Benth. & Hook.f. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised), MI

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