Blake, S.T. (1944), Monographic studies in the Australian Andropogoneae, Part I, including revisions of the genera Bothriochloa, Capillipedium, Chrysopogon, Vetiveria and Spathia. University of Queensland, Department of Biology, Papers 2(3): 20 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "QUEENSLAND. – Burke District: on bank of O'Shanessy R., approx. 19°10′ S., 138°45′ E., April 19th, 1935, Blake 8639 (TYPE IN BRI)."

taxonomic synonym: Chrysopogon aciculatus var. elatior Benth. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 324 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chrysopogon aciculatus var. elatior Benth. legitimate

• Comment: [as] Chrysopogon aciculatus (Retz.) Trin. ? var. elatior

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 197 [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): 224 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 38 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 68 [secondary reference]

Simon, B.K. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Vetiveria. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1242-1243, Fig. 352A [secondary reference]

Veldkamp, J.F. (29 December 1999), A revision of Chrysopogon Trin. including Vetiveria Bory (Poaceae) in Thailand and Malesia with notes on some other species from Africa and Australia. Austrobaileya 5(3): 526 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Chrysopogon oliganthus Veldkamp legitimate

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Poaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 286 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Chrysopogon oliganthus Veldkamp legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Chrysopogon oliganthus Veldkamp legitimate

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