SPOROBOLUS stapfianus Gand. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 66: 302 (1920); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 46 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 146 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 548 (1956); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 62 (1958); I.G.U.: 57 (1960); G.T.: 48 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 410 (1972). Types: South Africa, Transvaal, Wonderboompoort, Schlechter 3595 & Crocodile R., Schlechter 3900 (both K, isosyn.!)
SPOROBOLUS festivus Stapf var. stuppeus [family POACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 7: 582 (1900). Types: South Africa, Transvaal, Klip Fontein, Nelson 274 & Natal, Umsinga, Buchanan 96 (both K, syn. !)
SPOROBOLUS stuppeus (Stapf) Stent [family POACEAE], in Bothalia 2: 264 (1927)
SPOROBOLUS airiformis Chiov. [family POACEAE], (1939) from Ethiopia and the Somali Republic, with horny basal sheaths and obtuse lemmas, grades into S. stapfianus and may be no more than a local segregate.