Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Description of fifty new Australian plants, chiefly from the colony of Victoria. Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science 1: 44 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In dry loamy places near Port Adelaide, at the Barossa Ranges, the Murray River, and elsewhere in South Australia."

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

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 6 [secondary reference]

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

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

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 343, t. 14, Figs 13, 14 [secondary reference]

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

Henrard, J.Th. (1926), Mededeelingen van's Rijks-Herbarium: - [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "In the Kew Herbarium there are two specimens from MUELLER, one labelled Hindmarsh and the other Murray River, the latter is accepted as the type."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 82-83, Fig. 102 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. (30 December 1980), Aristida L. (Poaceae, Aristideae) in Australia. Brunonia 3(2): 300 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 54, 55, 58, Fig. 8c [secondary reference]

common name: Three-awned Grass [n/a] common name: Brush Speargrass [n/a] common name: Wiregrass [n/a] common name: Long-awned Wiregrass [n/a] common name: Emu Speargrass [n/a] common name: Brush Wiregrass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 36 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 59 [secondary reference]

Simon, B.K. (24 April 1992), A revision of the genus Aristida (Poaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(2): 206, fig. 14C, plate IV 51 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: Murray River, South Australia, F. Mueller s.n.; lecto, fide J. Th. henrard, op. cit. 54 (1926): K (photo BRI); isolecto: MEL (photo BRI).

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 513, pl. 28 [secondary reference]

common name: Bunch Wiregrass [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 550, Fig. 109g-h [secondary reference]

Simon, B.K. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Aristida. Flora of Australia 44B: 110, Plate 16, Fig. 18B APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: SA, NSW, ACT (formerly naturalised), Vic

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 126 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Bunch Wiregrass [n/a]

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