Gaudichaud-Beaupre, C. (1829), Voyage Autour du Monde ... sur les Corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne. Botanique 10: 407 [tax. nov.]

• Type: In Novae-Hollandiae orâ occidentali (baie des Chiens-Marins). [Type specimen in the herbarium at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in the Jardin de Plantes at Paris, a duplicate of the type in the Kew Herbarium. (ref. J.T.Henrard, Mededeelingen van's Rijks Herbarium, Leiden 54 (1936) 35.)]

Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) (1846), Gramineae. Plantae Preissianae 2(1): 98 [basionym]

basionym of: Arthratherum arenarium (Gaudich.) Nees nom. illeg.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 132 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 7 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Arthratherum arenarium (Gaudich.) Nees nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Aristida contorta F.Muell. legitimate

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 5 [secondary reference]

common name: Three-awned spear grass [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 622 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 64 [secondary reference]

common name: Mulga Grass [n/a]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 8 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 82 [secondary reference]

common name: Mulga Grass [n/a]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 165 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 48 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Aristida contorta F.Muell. legitimate

Lazarides, M. (30 December 1980), Aristida L. (Poaceae, Aristideae) in Australia. Brunonia 3(2): 321 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Aristida contorta F.Muell. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 37 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Aristida contorta F.Muell. legitimate

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 452 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Aristida contorta F.Muell. legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 148 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Aristida contorta F.Muell. legitimate

Simon, B.K. (24 April 1992), A revision of the genus Aristida (Poaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(2): 160 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Aristida contorta F.Muell. legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 550 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Aristida contorta F.Muell. legitimate

Simon, B.K. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Aristida. Flora of Australia 44B: 81 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Aristida contorta F.Muell. legitimate

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