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 [basionym]

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

Bailey, F.M. (1877), Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland: 12 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 134, 143 [secondary reference]

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

Mueller, F.J.H. von (13 May 1889), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 4: 7 [secondary reference]

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

Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (1897), Notes from the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. No. 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 22(1): 147 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 624 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 362 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 9 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 51 [secondary reference]

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 320 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 200 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 34 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Eriachne. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1171, Fig. 331H [secondary reference]

common name: Northern Wanderrie grass [n/a]

Lazarides, M. (30 June 1995), The genus Eriachne (Eriachneae, Poaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 8(3): 401, figs 28R, 18 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: Queensland, Burke District, Gulf of Carpentaria; Sweer's Island, 23.xi.1802, R. Brown (6260) (holo, BM; iso, CANB, E, K).

nomenclatural synonym: Eriachne obtusa R.Br. var. obtusa legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne obtusa var. glauca Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne obtusa var. typica Domin nom. inval.

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 221 [secondary reference]

common name: Northern Wanderrie Grass [n/a]

Lazarides, M., Van den Borre, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eriachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 139-140, Plate 20 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Achneria obtusa (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne obtusa var. glauca Domin legitimate common name: Northern Wanderrie Grass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Achneria obtusa (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eriachne obtusa R.Br. var. obtusa legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eriachne obtusa var. typica Domin nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Eriachne obtusa var. glauca Domin legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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