Pennisetum thunbergii Kunth

This name was accepted following an alternative taxonomy by these authorities:

• Clayton, W.D. & Renvoize, S.A. (1982). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 3: 451-898. [Cited as Pennisetum thunbergii.]
• Clayton, W.D. (1989). Flora Zambesiaca 10(3): 1-231. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Pennisetum thunbergii.]
• Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Pennisetum thunbergii.]
• Cope, T.A., Knees, S.G. & Miller, A.G. (2007). Flora of the Arabian peninsula and Socotra 5(1): 1-387. Edinburgh University Press. [Cited as Pennisetum thunbergii.]
• Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Pennisetum thunbergii.]
• Dassanayake (ed.) (1994). A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon 8: 1-458. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. PVT. LTD., New Delhi, Calcutta. [Cited as Pennisetum thunbergii.]
• Dobignard, D. & Chatelain, C. (2010). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 1: 1-455. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève. [Cited as Pennisetum thunbergii.]
• Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [Cited as Pennisetum thunbergii.]
• Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [Cited as Pennisetum thunbergii.]
• Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1995). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 7: 1-430. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps. [Cited as Pennisetum thunbergii.]
• Ndabaneze, P. (1989). Catalogue des Graminées du Burundi. Lejeunia; Revue de Botanique, n.s., 132: 1-127. [Cited as Pennisetum thunbergii.]
• Troupin, G. (ed.) (1988). Flora du Rwanda 4: I-X, 1-651. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. [Cited as Pennisetum thunbergii.]
• Wood, J.R.I. (1997). A Handbook of the Yemen Flora: 1-434. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Pennisetum thunbergii.]

Seed Collection Guides

• Clayton, W.D., Vorontsova, M.S., Harman, K.T. and Williamson, H. (2006 onwards). GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora. http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html. [accessed 10th March 2014; 10:00 GMT]; An Illustrated Manual of Kenya Grasses (1987) Ibrahim KM & Kabuye CHS.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• D.M. Napper, Grasses of Tanganyika: 89 (1965).
• Jackson & Wiehe, Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 54 (1958).
• Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1: 50 (1829).
• Robyns, Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 343 (1934).
• Stapf & C. E. Hubbard in Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 997 (1934).