Desvaux, N.A. in Desvaux, N.A. (ed.) (1813), Memoire sur les Graminees, et sur quelques genres et especes nouvelles de cette famille (1). Journal de Botanique, Appliquee l'Agriculture, a la Pharmacie, a la Medicine et aux Arts 1: 70 [tax. nov.]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 133 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Pappophorum Schreb. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 108 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek ennea, nine; pogon, beard; alluding to the 9 plumose awns of the flowering glume"

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Enneapogon Desv. ex P.Beauv. legitimate

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