Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(3): 268 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Poa tenuifolia A.Rich. legitimate

Simon, B.K. (June 1978), A preliminary check-list of Australian grasses. Technical Bulletin, Botany Branch, Queensland Department of Primary Industries 3: 28 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 45 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 170, Fig. 26I [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa tenuifolia A.Rich. legitimate common name: Elastic Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 539 [secondary reference]

common name: Elastic Grass [n/a]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 327 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa tenuifolia A.Rich. legitimate

Lazarides, M. (18 April 1997), A revision of Eragrostis (Eragrostideae, Eleusininae, Poaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10(1): 160, fig. 14h (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: Syntypes: Africa: Ethiopia: Tigre, Shire, Q.Dillon (P, not seen); Adoua, Schimper 92 (K).

Veldkamp, J.F. (2002), Revision of Eragrostis (Gramineae, Chloridoideae) in Malesia. Blumea 47(1): 187 [secondary reference]

Palmer, J., Lazarides, M., McCusker, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eragrostis. Flora of Australia 44B: 359-360 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa tenuifolia A.Rich. legitimate common name: Elastic Grass [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Tas (doubtfully naturalised)

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 257 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Elastic Grass [n/a]

Baker, M.L., Wapstra, M. & Lawrence, D. (20 August 2019), An annotated census of the lesser-known naturalised plants of Tasmania. Muelleria 38: 62 [secondary reference]

common name: elastic grass [n/a]

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