Gaertner, C.F. von (1807), Supplementum Carpologicae 2: 3, t. 181, fig. 3 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 207 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 131 [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Ophiurus R.Br. orth. var.

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 617 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 310-312 [secondary reference]

Simon, B.K. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Ophiuros. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1192 [secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Poaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 308 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 604 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Ophiurus R.Br. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

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