Linder, H.P., Baeza, M., Barker, N.P., Galley, C., Humphreys, A.M., Lloyd, K.M., Orlovich, D.A., Pirie, M.D., Simon, B.K., Walsh, N. & Verboom, G.A. (2010), A generic classification of the Danthonioideae (Poaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 97(3): 334 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Avena pallida Thunb. legitimate

Biggs, L.J. & Parker, C.M. (21 November 2013), Updates to Western Australia's vascular plant census for 2012. Nuytsia 23: 516 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pentaschistis pallida (Thunb.) H.P.Linder legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Avena pallida Thunb. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Danthonia pallida (Thunb.) Roem. & Schult. nom. illeg. nomenclatural synonym: Pentaschistis pallida (Thunb.) H.P.Linder legitimate misapplication: Pentaschistis thunbergii (Kunth) Stapf legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 36 misapplication: Pentaschistis thunbergii (Kunth) Stapf legitimate by Jessop, J.P. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Gramineae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 1876

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 380-381, photos 12-15 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Pentaschistis pallida (Thunb.) H.P.Linder legitimate common name: Perennial False Hairgrass [n/a]

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