Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 183 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (T.) B. v.s.

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1: 278 [basionym]

basionym of: Aira squarrosa (R.Br.) Spreng. 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: 133 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Aira squarrosa (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate

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

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

taxonomic synonym: Eriachne armitii F.Muell. ex Benth. legitimate

Lazarides, M. (1961), Contributions to the knowledge of Western Australian Gramineae. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 44: 77-83 [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]

Eck-Borsboom, M.H.J. van (1980), A revision of Eriachne R.Br. (Gramineae) in Asia and Malesia. Blumea 26(1): 135-136 [secondary reference]

• Type: as "Banks & Solander s.n (`Bustard Bay, Bay of Inlets & Endeavor River, Queensland') (BM, holo)."

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 64 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. (30 June 1995), The genus Eriachne (Eriachneae, Poaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 8(3): 416, figs 27D, 24 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: Queensland, Cook District, Bustard Bay; Bay of Inlets and Endeavour River, in 1770, J. Banks and D. Solander s.n. (holo, BM).

nomenclatural synonym: Aira squarrosa (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate

Lazarides, M., Van den Borre, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eriachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 148-149, Fig. 24C-D APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira squarrosa (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

Lazarides, M., Van den Borre, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eriachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 156 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Eriachne sulcata W.Hartley legitimate by Lazarides, M. (1961), Contributions to the knowledge of Western Australian Gramineae. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 44: 77-83

Lazarides, M., Van den Borre, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eriachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 149 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Eriachne schultziana F.Muell. legitimate by Eck-Borsboom, M.H.J. van (1980), A revision of Eriachne R.Br. (Gramineae) in Asia and Malesia. Blumea 26(1): 135-136

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