HEMARTHRIA altissima (Poir.) Stapf & Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1934: 109 (1934); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 42 (1958); G.T.: 113 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 506 (1972). Type: Algeria, Bastion, Poiret (P, holo.)
Rottboellia altissima Poir. [family POACEAE], Voy. Barb. 2: 105 (1789)
Rottboellia fasciculata Lam. [family POACEAE], Tab. Encycl. Méth. Bot. 1: 204 (1791), nom. superfl., based on R. altissima Poir.
Hemarthria fasciculata (Lam.) Kunth [family POACEAE], Rév. Gram. 1: 153 (1829); F.T.A. 9: 55 (1917)
Rottboellia compressa (Lam.) Hack. var. fasciculata [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 286 (1889)
Manisuris fasciculata (Lam.) Hitchc. [family POACEAE], in Amer. Journ. Bot. 2: 299 (1915)
Rottboellia heterochroa Gand. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 66: 302 (1920). Type: South Africa, Landrivier, Schlechter 6906 (K, iso.!)
Manisuris altissima (Poir.) Hitchc. [family POACEAE], in Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 24: 292 (1934)
Hemarthria compressa (Lam.) Keng var. fasciculata [family POACEAE], in Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, Bot. 10: 202 (1936)
Hemarthria compressa (Poir.) Maire subsp. altissima [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Nord 1: 261 (1952)