Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 521 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 126."

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

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: 195 [secondary reference]

Roberty, G.E. (July 1960), Monographie systématique des Andropogonées du globe. Boissiera 9: 333, 339 [basionym]

basionym of: Ischaemum aristatum subvar. decumbens (Benth.) Roberty legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 222 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 64 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ischaemum aristatum subvar. decumbens (Benth.) Roberty legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (21 March 2023), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2022. Nuytsia 34: 3 [secondary reference]

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