Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(3): 237 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Nees. Ceylon."

Balansa, B. (1890), Journal de Botanique (Morot) 4: 165 [basionym]

basionym of: Massia triseta (Nees ex Steud.) Balansa legitimate

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]

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]

Simon, B.K. (June 1978), A preliminary check-list of Australian grasses. Technical Bulletin, Botany Branch, Queensland Department of Primary Industries 3: 24 [secondary reference]

Eck-Borsboom, M.H.J. van (1980), A revision of Eriachne R.Br. (Gramineae) in Asia and Malesia. Blumea 26(1): 136-137 [secondary reference]

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

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]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 143-144, Fig. 22I [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Eriachne. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1172-1173, Fig. 331L [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Massia triseta (Nees ex Steud.) Balansa legitimate taxonomic synonym: Megalachne zeylanica Thwaites nom. inval.

Lazarides, M. (30 June 1995), The genus Eriachne (Eriachneae, Poaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 8(3): 422, figs 27E, 21 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: "Ceylon; Walker s.n. (holo, P, not seen; iso, K)."

nomenclatural synonym: Massia triseta (Nees ex Steud.) Balansa legitimate taxonomic synonym: Megalachne zeylanica Thwaites nom. inval.

Lazarides, M., Van den Borre, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eriachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 153 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Massia triseta (Nees ex Steud.) Balansa legitimate taxonomic synonym: Triraphis diantha F.Muell. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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