ECHINOCHLOA crus-pavonis (Kunth) Schult. [family POACEAE], Syst. Veg. Mant. 2: 269 (1824); F.T.A. 9: 612 (1920); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 140 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 16 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 92 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 44 (1956); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 37 (1958); I.G.U.: 27 (1960); G.T.: 65 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 440 (1972). Type: Venezuela, Bordones, Humboldt (whereabouts uncertain)
Oplismenus crus-pavonis Kunth [family POACEAE], in Humb. & Bonpl., Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1: 108 (1815)
Panicum crus-pavonis (Kunth) Nees [family POACEAE], Agrost. Bras.: 259 (1829)
Panicum crus-pavonis Stapf var. rostratum [family POACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 7: 396 (1898). Types: South Africa, Natal, Buchanan 269 (K, syn.!) and several other syntypes
Echinochloa crus-galli (Kunth) Hitchc. var. crus-pavonis [family POACEAE], in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 22: 149 (1920); Pfitscher & Barreto in An. Tec. Inst. Pesq. Zootec. Franciso Osorio 3: 272 (1976)
Panicum colonum Peter var. bussei [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1: 179 (1930). Types: Tanzania, Rungwe District, Kyimbila, Stolz 1297 (B, syn.!, K, isosyn.!) & several other syntypes