Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1843), Gramina Novae Hollandiae. London Journal of Botany 2: 416 [tax. nov.]

• Type: ad flumen Cygnorum, Mr. Toward.

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

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 71 [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): 50 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eriachne preissiana Nees legitimate

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

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

Lazarides, M. (30 June 1995), The genus Eriachne (Eriachneae, Poaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 8(3): 403, figs, 28N, 19 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: Western Australia, South-west Province, Swan River; Toward 4 (holo, CGE; iso, B; spikelets and sketch in K).

taxonomic synonym: Eriachne preissiana Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne ovata var. villosa Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne ovata var. nana S.Moore legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne nana Pilg. legitimate

Lazarides, M., Van den Borre, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eriachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 144-145 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eriachne preissiana Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne ovata var. villosa Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne ovata var. nana S.Moore legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne nana Pilg. legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Eriachne ovata Nees var. ovata legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne preissiana Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne ovata var. villosa Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne ovata var. nana S.Moore legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne nana Pilg. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, SA

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