Leptochloa rupestris C.E.Hubb.

This name was accepted following an alternative taxonomy by these authorities:

• Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Leptochloa rupestris.]
• Clayton, W.D., Phillips, S.M., Renvoize, S.A. (1974). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 2: 177-449. [Cited as Leptochloa rupestris.]
• Cope, T.A., Knees, S.G. & Miller, A.G. (2007). Flora of the Arabian peninsula and Socotra 5(1): 1-387. Edinburgh University Press. [Cited as Leptochloa rupestris.]
• Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1995). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 7: 1-430. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps. [Cited as Leptochloa rupestris.]
• Thulin, M. (ed.) (1995). Flora of Somalia 4: i-ii, 1-298. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Leptochloa rupestris.]
• Wood, J.R.I. (1997). A Handbook of the Yemen Flora: 1-434. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Leptochloa rupestris.]

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• A.V. Bogdan, A Revised List of Kenya Grasses p. 22 (1958).
• C. E. Hubbard in Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Kew 1941: 195 (1941).
• K.W. Harker & D.M. Napper, An Illustrated Guide to the Grasses of Uganda p. 40 (1960).