Druce, G.C. (1917), Nomenclatorial Notes: chiefly African and Australian. The Botanical Exchange Club and Society of the British Isles Report for 1916, Suppl. 2: 627 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Poa abortiva 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): 222 [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: - [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Heterachne. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1177 [secondary reference]

Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Heterachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 412-413, Plate 58, Fig. 74E-F APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa abortiva R.Br. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Eragrostis abortiva (R.Br.) Steud. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Heterachne brownii Benth. nom. illeg., nom. superfl.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (24 June 2021), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2020. Nuytsia 32: 12 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Eragrostis abortiva (R.Br.) Steud. legitimate

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