PENNISETUM thunbergii Kunth [family POACEAE], Rev. Gram. 1: 50 (1829); F.T.A. 9: 997 (1934); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 343 (1934); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 54 (1958); G.T.: 89 (1965). Type: South Africa, Thunberg (UPS, holo.)
Cenchrus geniculatus Thunb. [family POACEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 24 (1794). Type as for species
Panicum geniculatum (Thunb.) Thunb. [family POACEAE], Fl. Cap. 1: 388 (1813), non Poir. (1798)
Pennisetum schimperi A. Rich. var. pubiflora [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 381 (1851). Type: Ethiopia, Mt. Scholoda, Schimper 11 (K, iso.!)
Pennisetum adoense Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 104 (1854); F.T.A. 9: 998 (1934); F.P.S. 3: 513 (1956). Type: Ethiopia, Adua [Adoa], Schimper 94 (K, iso.!)
Pennisetum glabrum Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 104 (1854); F.T.A. 9: 995 (1934); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 342 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 35 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 127 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 512 (1956); R.K.G.: 52 (1958); I.G.U.: 47 (1960); G.T.: 89 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 463 (1972). Type: Ethiopia, Mt. Scholoda, Schimper 11 (K, iso.!)
Pennisetum schimperi (Steud.) Th. Dur. & Schinz var. glabrum [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 784 (1894)
Pennisetum depauperatum Schweinf. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2, App. 2: 26 (1894). Type: Yemen, Menacha, Schweinfurth 1471 (K, iso.!)
Pennisetum thunbergii Stapf var. galpinii [family POACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 7: 437 (1899). Types: South Africa, near Queenstown, Galpin 2368 (K, syn.!) & several other syntypes
Pennisetum geniculatum (Thunb.) Leeke [family POACEAE], in Zeitschr. Naturwiss. 79: 43 (1907), non (Poir.) Jacq. (1820)
Pennisetum glabrum Chiov. var. filiforme [family POACEAE], in Ann. 1st. Bot. Roma 8: 322 (1908). Type: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Asmara, Pappi 5061 (Fl, holo.!)
Pennisetum leekei Mez [family POACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 7: 52 (1917). Type: Rwanda, Lukondo, Mildbraed 698 (B, holo.!)
Pennisetum paucisetum Peter [family POACEAE], in Abh. K. Ges. Wiss. Gott., Math.-Phys. Kl., n.f., 13, 2: 46 (1928) & in E.J. 68: 140 (1937). Type: Tanzania, S. Pare Mts., Peter (B, holo.†)
Pennisetum snowdenii C.E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1928: 133 (1928). Type: Uganda, Mbale District, Bulago, Snowden 1181 (K, holo.!)
Pennisetum leekei Peter var. leucostachys [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 74 (1930). Type: Tanzania, Buha District, Bikare-Mkigo, Peter 38717 (B, holo.†)