The species
Dissochondrus biflorus was first described in 1888 by
William Hillebrand as
Setaria biflora. Hillebrand placed it in a new subgenus of
Setaria,
S. subg.
Dissochondrus. In 1897,
Otto Kuntze elevated the subgenus to the full genus
Dissochondrus with the sole species becoming
Dissochondrus biflorus. ==References==