Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Martius, C.F.P. von (1829), Agrostologia Brasiliensis seu Descriptio Graminum. Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 377 [comb. nov.]

• Type: Montevideo [Uruguay], Sello s.n.

basionym: Calamagrostis plumosa Spreng. legitimate

Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(2): 126 [replaced synonym]

replaced synonym of: Stipa delilei Steud. legitimate

Barkworth, M.E. (1993), North American Stipeae (Gramineae): taxonomic changes and other comments. Phytologia 74(1): 11 [basionym]

basionym of: Achnatherum papposum (Nees) Barkworth nom. illeg.

Gardner, J., Jessop, J.P. & Symon, D.E. (29 August 1996), The escape of Stipa papposa. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 17: 174 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Calamagrostis plumosa Spreng. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Stipa delilei Steud. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 December 1997), Jarava plumosa (Gramineae), a new combination for the species formerly known as Stipa papposa. Telopea 7(3): 301 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Jarava plumosa (Spreng.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

Everett, J., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Nairn, L. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Tribe Stipeae. Flora of Australia 44A: 62 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Jarava plumosa (Spreng.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

---