Blake, S.T. (1954), Botanical contributions of the Northern Australia Regional Survey. II. Studies on miscellaneous northern Australian plants. Australian Journal of Botany 2(1): 108, fig. 1 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "near Hayes Creek, 13°37′S., 131°26′E., in swampy ground, alt. about 105 m, 10.vii.1946, Blake 16405 (TYPE)"

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: 196 [secondary reference]

Chai-Anan, C. (April 1972), A Revision of Germainia Balansa & Poitrasson (Gramineae). Thai Forest Bulletin. Botany 6: 44, fig. 1 (map) [basionym]

basionym of: Germainia grandiflora (S.T.Blake) Chai-Anan legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 223 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Germainia grandiflora (S.T.Blake) Chai-Anan legitimate

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