THEMEDA triandra Forssk. [family POACEAE], Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 178 (1775); F.T.A. 9: 416 (1919); E.A. Pasture Plants 1: 28 (1926); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 216 (1929); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 47 (1947); Imp. Grassl. Pl. Kenya: 84 (1951); F.P.N.A. 3: 70 (1955); R.K.G.: 62 (1958); I.G.U.: 58 (1960); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 471 (1972). Type: Yemen, Forsskål (C, holo.†)
Anthistiria imberbis Retz. [family POACEAE], Obs. Bot. 3: 11 (1783). Type: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Sparrmann (LD, holo.!)
Stipa paleacea Poir. [family POACEAE], Voy. Barb. 2: 101 (1789). Type: Algeria, Poiret (P, holo.)
Themeda polygama Gmel. [family POACEAE], Syst. Nat. 2: 149 (1791), nom. superfl. Based on T. triandra Forssk.
Anthistiria glauca Desf. [family POACEAE], Fl. Atlant. 2: 380, fig. 254 (1800), nom. superfl. Based on Stipa paleacea Poir.
Anthistiria australis R. Br. [family POACEAE], Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 1: 200 (1810). Type: Australia, Brown 6194 (K, iso.!)
Anthistiria forskalii Kunth [family POACEAE], Rév. Gram. 1: 162 (1829), nom. superfl. Based on Themeda polygama Gmel.
Anthistiria punctata A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 448 (1851). Types: Ethiopia, Memsah, Quartin Dillon (P, syn.) & Scholoda, Schimper 73 (K, isosyn.!) & Dochli, Schimper 1555 (K, isosyn.!)
Anthistiria paleacea (Poir.) Ball [family POACEAE], in J.L.S. 16: 734 (1878)
Themeda forskalii Hack. [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 659 (1889), nom. superfl. Based on Anthistiria imberbis Retz.
Themeda forskalii Hack. var. burchellii [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 661 (1889). Types: South Africa, Griqualand West, Burchell 1844 & 2095 (both K, isosyn.!)
Themeda forskalii Hack. var. glauca [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 663 (1889). Type: Algeria, Bone, Desfontaines (P, holo.)
Themeda forskalii (Poir.) Th. Dur. & Schinz var. paleacea [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 731 (1894)
Themeda imberbis (Retz.) Cooke [family POACEAE], Fl. Bombay 2: 993 (1908)
Themeda triandra (Retz.) Hack. var. imberbis [family POACEAE], in Proc. Trans. Rhod. Sci. Ass. 7: 63 (1908)
Themeda triandra (Hack.) Thell. var. glauca [family POACEAE], Fl. Adven. Montpellier: 75 (1912); F.T.A. 9: 419 (1919)
Themeda triandra (Hack.) Domin var. burchellii [family POACEAE], in Bibl. Bot. 85: 280 (1915); F.T.A. 9: 419 (1919); Piovano in Webbia 13: 283 (1957); G.T.: 111 (1965)
Themeda triandra Stapf var. hispida [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 418 (1919); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 218 (1929); F.P.S. 3: 551 (1956); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 62 (1958); G.T.: 111 (1965). Type: South Africa, Clanwilliam, Drège (K, holo.!)
Themeda australis (R. Br.) Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 420 (1919)
Themeda triandra (A. Rich.) Stapf var. punctata [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 419 (1919); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 218 (1929); Chiov. et al., Miss. Biol. Borana, Race. Bot.: 273 (1939); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 62 (1958)
Themeda triandra Peter var. bracteosa [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 17, fig. 17/1 (1930). Type: Tanzania, Kigoma District, Uvinza, Lugugu, Peter 36734 (B, holo.†)
Themeda triandra Goossens var. trachyspathea [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1934: 195 (1934). Type: Swaziland, Hlumi, van Vuren in PRE 10082 (PRE, holo.)
Themeda triandra Chiov. var. sublaevigata [family POACEAE], in Webbia 8: 61 (1951). Types: Ethiopia, El Banno, Corradi 1153 (Fl, syn.!) and many other syntypes