Cleistachne sorghoides Benth.

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 Cleistachne sorghoides.]
• 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 Cleistachne sorghoides.]
• Cope, T.A. (2002). Flora Zambesiaca 10(4): 1-190. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Cleistachne sorghoides.]
• 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 Cleistachne sorghoides.]
• 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 Cleistachne sorghoides.]
• 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 Cleistachne sorghoides.]
• Ghazanfar, S.A. (1992). An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Oman and their Vernacular names. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2: 1-153. [Cited as Cleistachne sorghoides.]
• 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 Cleistachne sorghoides.]
• Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. (1989). Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae: 1-435. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta. [Cited as Cleistachne sorghoides.]
• Ndabaneze, P. (1989). Catalogue des Graminées du Burundi. Lejeunia; Revue de Botanique, n.s., 132: 1-127. [Cited as Cleistachne sorghoides.]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• A.V. Bogdan, A Revised List of Kenya Grasses p. 56 (1958).
• Benth. in Hook., Ic. Pl. 14, t. 1379 (1882).
• D.M. Napper, Grasses of Tanganyika: 98 (1965).
• Eggeling, Ann. list grasses Ug.: 10 (1947).
• Jackson & Wiehe, Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 33 (1958).
• K.W. Harker & D.M. Napper, An Illustrated Guide to the Grasses of Uganda p. 22 (1960).
• Robyns, Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 98 (1929).
• Robyns, Flore des Spermatophytes du Parc National Albert 3: 47 (1955).
• Stapf in Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 154 (1917).