Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 81 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Lagurus ovatus L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 34 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1918), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 13. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 42: 40 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 71 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek lagos, a hare; oura, a tail: alluding to the shape of the panicle."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 100 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek lagos, a hare; oura, a tail; alluding to the shape of the panicle"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 145 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 534 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 50-51 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 47 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 966 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 128 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 503 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Lagurus. Flora of New South Wales 4: 568 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 464 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 281 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 496 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 421 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 82 (fig.), 86 (fig.), 290 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Greek for 'hare' and 'tail', referring to the fluffy inflorescence"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 465 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Lagarus Du Puy & Telford orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (formerly naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Weiller, C.M., Kodela, P.G. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Lagurus. Flora of Australia 44A: 240 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (formerly naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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