Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1817), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 2: 576 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Poa tenella L. legitimate

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 643 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881), Plants of North-Western Australia. Western Australia - Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council: 13 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 135, 143 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 6 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 15 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa tenella L. legitimate

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 20 [secondary reference]

common name: A love grass [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 629 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eragrostis interrupta var. tenuissima Stapf legitimate

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 390 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eragrostis interrupta var. tenuissima Stapf legitimate

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 78 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 10 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 117 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Eragrostis japonica (Thunb.) Trin. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 643

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 116 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eragrostis japonica (Thunb.) Trin. legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 64 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Eragrostis japonica (Thunb.) Trin. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 643

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 33 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 63 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Eragrostis. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1166 [secondary reference]

common name: Delicate Lovegrass [n/a]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 472 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa tenella L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Poa plumosa Retz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis plumosa (Retz.) Link legitimate common name: Love Grass [n/a]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 25 [secondary reference]

Pike, G.D. & Leach, G.J. (1997), Handbook of the vascular plants of Ashmore and Cartier Islands: 87-88 [secondary reference]

common name: Delicate love grass [n/a]

Lazarides, M. (18 April 1997), A revision of Eragrostis (Eragrostideae, Eleusininae, Poaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10(1): 157, fig. 14f (map) [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa tenella L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis elytroblephara Steud. legitimate

Palmer, J., Lazarides, M., McCusker, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eragrostis. Flora of Australia 44B: 395 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Eragrostis tenellula (Kunth) Steud. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 643

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa tenella L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Poa amabilis L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Poa plumosa Retz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Megastachya amabilis (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cynodon amabilis (L.) Raspail legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis plumosa (Retz.) Link legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis elytroblephara Steud. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI, ChI, NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

Parker, C.M. & Percy-Bower, J.M. (8 March 2022), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2021. Nuytsia 33: 7 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees var. amabilis legitimate

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