Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 345-346 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "West-Queensland: dürre, grasige und buschige Stellen bei Cloncurry (DOMIN, II. 1910), häufig." (Type Herbarium given by M.Lazarides, Brunonia 3 (1980) 296 as "(PR, holotype, not seen).").

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 168 [secondary reference]

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): 296-297 [secondary reference]

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. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Aristida. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1127, Fig. 324D [secondary reference]

common name: Gulf Feathertop Wiregrass [n/a]

Simon, B.K. (24 April 1992), A revision of the genus Aristida (Poaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 5(2): 169, fig. 5 D, plate II 16 (map) [secondary reference]

• Neotype: Mt Isa, Burke District, Queensland, 15 Mar. 1954, M.Lazarides 4369; neo: BRI; isoneo: AD, CANB, MEL, NSW, NT, PERTH.

Simon, B.K. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Aristida. Flora of Australia 44B: 90 APC [secondary reference]

common name: Gulf Feathertop Wiregrass [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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