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References
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Quattrocchi, Umberto (26 April 2006). CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology - 3 Volume Set. CRC Press. p. 620. ISBN 978-1-4200-0322-2.
- ↑ Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel ex Steudel, Ernst Gottlieb von 1854. Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1: 145-146 in Latin
- ↑ Tropicos, Dichaetaria Nees ex Steud.
- ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- ↑ Gamble, James Sykes (1928). Flora of the Presidency of Madras: Ranunculaceae to opiliaceae. West, Newman and Adlard. p. 1829.
- ↑ Bor, N. L. 1960. Grass. Burma, Ceylon, India & Pakistan i–767. Pergamon Press, Oxford
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