Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 83 [comb. et stat. nov.]

basionym: Aristida echinata var. nitidula Henrard legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 166 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aristida echinata var. nitidula Henrard legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 219 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. (30 December 1980), Aristida L. (Poaceae, Aristideae) in Australia. Brunonia 3(2): 217 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 450-451 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aristida echinata var. nitidula Henrard legitimate common name: Flat-awned threeawn [n/a]

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

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 60 [secondary reference]

Simon, B.K. (24 April 1992), A revision of the genus Aristida (Poaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(2): 217, fig. 17A, plate V 61 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: "Mission Station, Finke River, Central Southern Region, Northern Territory, 1879, F. Kempe 4; holo: L (photo BRI, K); iso: K (photo BRI), 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: 514 [secondary reference]

Simon, B.K. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Aristida. Flora of Australia 44B: 111-112, Fig. 19A-B APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aristida echinata var. nitidula Henrard legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Aristida nitidula (Henrard) S.T.Blake isonym

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 130 (fig.) [secondary reference]

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