Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 82, 162, 171 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Pappophorum pallidum R.Br. legitimate

Burbidge, N.T. (1941), A revision of the Australian species of Enneapogon Desv. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 153(1): 78-80 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pappophorum pallidum R.Br. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 32 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pappophorum pallidum R.Br. 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: 199 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pappophorum pallidum R.Br. legitimate

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]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 94, Fig. 20f, 96 [secondary reference]

common name: Cone-top Nineawn [n/a] common name: Pale Bottlewashers [n/a]

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: 454 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pappophorum pallidum R.Br. legitimate common name: Cone-top nineawn [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 33 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 62 [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): 345-347 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pappophorum nigricans var. pallidum (R.Br.) Domin legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym: Pappophorum pallidum R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Pappophorum nigricans var. pallidum (R.Br.) Domin legitimate common name: Conetop Nineawn [n/a]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Enneapogon. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1159 [secondary reference]

common name: Conetop Nineawn [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 517 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Enneapogon nigricans (R.Br.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 219 [secondary reference]

common name: Conetop Nineawn [n/a]

Weiller, C.M. & Lazarides, M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Enneapogon. Flora of Australia 44B: 199, Plate 25 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pappophorum pallidum R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Pappophorum nigricans var. pallidum (R.Br.) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pappophorum nigricans var. pubiculme Domin legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Pappophorum commune F.Muell. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

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

orthographic variant: Enneapogon pallidum Desv. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Pappophorum pallidum R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Pappophorum nigricans var. pallidum (R.Br.) Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pappophorum nigricans var. pubiculme Domin legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Pappophorum commune F.Muell. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. isonym: Enneapogon pallidus (R.Br.) Desv. isonym

• APC Comment: Enneapogon pallidus is included within E. nigricans in NSW.
• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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