Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 81, 161 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Hitchcock, A.S. (20 March 1920), The genera of grasses of the United States: with special reference to the economic species. Bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C 772: 83 [secondary reference]

• Type: Enneapogon desvauxii P.Beauv.

Burbidge, N.T. (1941), A revision of the Australian species of Enneapogon Desv. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 153(1): 52-91 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 30 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 43-44 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 44 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 453 [secondary reference]

Kakudidi, E.K.Z., Lazarides, M. & Carnahan, J.A. (1989), A revision of Enneapogon (Poaceae, Pappophoreae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 1(4): 325-353 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 186-187 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Enneapogon. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1158 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 514-515 [secondary reference]

common name: Nineawn grasses [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 552-553 [secondary reference]

Weiller, C.M. & Lazarides, M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Enneapogon. Flora of Australia 44B: 188 [secondary reference]

common name: Nineawn Grasses [n/a]

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

orthographic variant: Euneapogon F.Muell. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Enneapogon Desv. nom. illeg.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 81 (fig.), 82 (fig.), 239-240 [secondary reference]

common name: Nineawn Grasses [n/a]

• Etymology: "from the Greek words for 'nine' and 'beard' referring to the nine awns on the lemma"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 307 [secondary reference]

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