SPOROBOLUS ioclados (Trin.) Nees [family POACEAE], ,Fl. Afr. Austr.: 161 (1841); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 407 (1972). Types: South Africa, Cape Province, Nieuwjaarsfontein, Drège & Wonderhuivel, Drège (both K, isosyn.!) and several other syntypes
Vilfa ioclados Trin. [family POACEAE], in Mém. Acad. Sci. Pétersb., sér. 6, Sci. Nat. 4: 65 (1840)
Vilfa pallida Trin. [family POACEAE], in Mém. Acad. Sci. Pétersb., sér. 6, Sci. Nat. 4: 62 (1840). Type: India, Royle (LIV, holo., K, iso.!)
Sporobolus marginatus A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 397 (1851); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 45 (1947); Imp. grassl. pl. Kenya: 40 (1951); F.P.N.A. 3: 147 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 547 (1956); R.K.G.: 27 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 61 (1958); I.G.U.: 57 (1960); G.T.: 45 (1965). Types: Ethiopia, Tigre, Modat [Medu], Schimper 1777 (K, TUB, isosyn.!) & Shire [Chire], Quartin Dillon (P, syn.)
Vilfa marginata (A. Rich.) Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 155 (1854)
Vilfa scabrifolia Edgew. [family POACEAE], in J.L.S. 6: 196 (1862), nom. nud. Based on: Ethiopia, Gageros, Schimper 2302 (K !)
Sporobolus pallidus (Trin.) Boiss. [family POACEAE], Fl. Orient. 5: 512 (1884), non Lindl. (1848), nom. illegit.
Sporobolus laetevirens Coss. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 36: 251(1889). Type: Tunisia, Sebkha, Sidi-el-Hani, Cosson et al. (K, iso.!)
Sporobolus marginatus Chiov. var. anceps [family POACEAE], in Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma 8: 51 (1903). Type: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mensa, Curo-Colfu, Pappi 1118 (Fl, holo. !)
Sporobolus marginatus Chiov. var. scabrifolius [family POACEAE], in Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma 8: 339 (1908). Type: Ethiopia, Tigre, Gageros, Schimper 2302 (K, iso.!)
Sporobolus seineri Mez [family POACEAE], in F.R. 17: 294 (1921). Types: South West Africa, Omuramba and Omaheke, Seiner 670 & Barmen, Dinter 2556 (both B, syn. !)
Sporobolus smutsii Stent [family POACEAE], in Bothalia 1: 281 (1924). Types: South Africa, Pretoria District, Pole-Evans 590 (K, isosyn.!) & 271, 536 (PRE, syn.) & 556 (K, isosyn. !) & Leeuwkraal, Pole-Evans 668 (K, isosyn.!)
Sporobolus gillii Stent [family POACEAE], in Bothalia 2: 256 (1927). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Grootfontein, Gill 7 (PRE, holo., K, iso.!)
Sporobolus usitatus Stent [family POACEAE], in Bothalia 2: 257 (1927). Type: South Africa, Transvaal, Meintjes Kop, Stent in Nat. Herb. H.21624 (K, iso.!)
Sporobolus genalensis Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Atti Reale Accad. It., Mem. Cl. Sci. Math. Nat. 11: 65 (1940). Types: Somali Republic (S.), Genale, Bisi 22 & 47 (both FI, syn. !)
Sporobolus ioclados (Stent) Chippindall var. usitatus [family POACEAE], in Meredith, Grasses Past. S. Afr.: 217 (1955)