Setaria vulpiseta (Lam.) Roem. & Schult. var. vulpiseta, Syst. Veg. 2: 495. 1817 sec. Dávila & al. 2006
- =Setaria composita Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 111. 1815 syn. sec. Dávila & al. 2006
- =Setaria alopecurus Trin. ex Steud., Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 50. 1853 syn. sec. Dávila & al. 2006
- =Chaetochloa composita (Kunth) Scribn. in Bull. Div. Agrostol., U.S.D.A. 4: 39. 1897 syn. sec. Dávila & al. 2006
- =Chaetochloa amplifolia (Steud.) Scribn., Enum. Pl. Guatem. 5: 91. 1899 syn. sec. Dávila & al. 2006
- =Setaria liebmannii f. trichorhachis Hack. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 8: 46. 1910 syn. sec. Dávila & al. 2006
- =Chaetochloa trichorhachis (Hack.) Hitchc. in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 24(8): 481. 1927 syn. sec. Dávila & al. 2006
- =Setaria trichorhachis (Hack.) R.C. Foster in Rhodora 68: 339. 1966 syn. sec. Dávila & al. 2006