Linnaeus, C. (1762), Species Plantarum Edn. 2, 1: 126 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Italia, Anglia."

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 669 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 536 [secondary reference]

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 52 [secondary reference]

common name: Meadow barley [n/a]

Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 238 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 275 [secondary reference]

Baum, B.R. & Jarvis, C.E. (1985), The typification of three Linnaean spedcies of Hordeum (Poaceae). Taxon 34: 531 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "the lectotype is, as previously designated, specimen No. 103.4 (LINN)"

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: A name of uncertain application.

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