Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 184 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 73, 146 [basionym]

basionym of: Achneria capillaris (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1: 276 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Aira hispida Spreng. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 134 [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. (30 June 1995), The genus Eriachne (Eriachneae, Poaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 8(3): 375, figs 30B, C, 7 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: Northern Territory, Darwin and Gulf District, North Coast; Arnhem Bay (Bay 3), in 1803, R. Brown (6265) (holo, BM; iso, B, BR, C, CANB, E, G, K).

nomenclatural synonym: Aira hispida Spreng. legitimate

Lazarides, M., Van den Borre, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eriachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 164, Fig. 27A-B [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira hispida Spreng. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Achneria capillaris (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Aira hispida Spreng. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT

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