Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 173 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (T.) v.v.

Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 30 [basionym]

basionym of: Chaetaria calicina (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1817), Systema Vegetabilium 2: 397 [basionym]

basionym of: Chaetaria calycina (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult. isonym

Bailey, F.M. (1877), Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland: 8 [secondary reference]

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

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): 345 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chaetaria calicina (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate

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

Henrard, J.Th. (1926), Mededeelingen van's Rijks-Herbarium 54: 71 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "An authentic specimen collected by ROBERT BROWN (R. Brown Iter Australiense, 1802–5, no. 6198) in the Kew Herbarium ... are accepted by me as the type specimens."

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: 84 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 531 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. (30 December 1980), Aristida L. (Poaceae, Aristideae) in Australia. Brunonia 3(2): 287-289 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Queensland: Port Curtis District: Keppel Bay, R. Brown (6198) (BM, holotype; BRI, K, E, isotypes)."

taxonomic synonym: Aristida glumaris Henrard legitimate

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

common name: Dark Wiregrass [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Aristida glumaris Henrard legitimate

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 449 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Aristida glumaris Henrard legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 30 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 149-150 [secondary reference]

common name: Dark Wiregrass [n/a]

Simon, B.K. (24 April 1992), A revision of the genus Aristida (Poaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(2): 170 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Keppel Bay, Port Curtis, Queensland, 14 Aug. 1802, R. Brown [6198]; lecto fide J. Th. Henrard, op. cit. 54: 71 (1926): K, n.v.; isolecto: BM (photo BRI), E (fragment BRI)."

taxonomic synonym: Aristida glumaris Henrard legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 509 [secondary reference]

Simon, B.K. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Aristida. Flora of Australia 44B: 92-93 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chaetaria calicina (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Aristida glumaris Henrard legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chaetaria calicina (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Chaetaria calycina (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult. isonym nomenclatural synonym: Chaetaria calicina A.D.Chapm. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Aristida calycina var. typica Domin nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Aristida glumaris Henrard legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW, Vic

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

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