Black, J.M. (1933), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 31. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 148, t. IX, fig. 6 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Pedirka, September, 1932. Part of the valuable collection made in the Far North by Mr E.H. Ising, to whom the species is dedicated."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 101, Fig. 125 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 221 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 442-443 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. (30 June 1995), The genus Eriachne (Eriachneae, Poaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 8(3): 409 [secondary reference]

• Type: South Australia, North-eastern Region, Pedirka; ix.1932, E.H. Ising 4, communicated J.M. Black in iii.1934 (holo, AD; iso, BRI, K).

Lazarides, M. (30 June 1995), The genus Eriachne (Eriachneae, Poaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 8(3): 409 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eriachne pulchella Domin subsp. pulchella legitimate

Lazarides, M., Van den Borre, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eriachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 171 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eriachne pulchella Domin subsp. pulchella legitimate

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