Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 634 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong."

• Text: "A specimen in herb. Hook. marked as from Drummond, but there may be possibly some mistake."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 135 [secondary reference]

Hubbard, C.E. (December 1936), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 34(1): subt. 3312, p. 12 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "NORTHERN AUSTRALIA. Port Essington, May 1840, Armstrong 529 (type)"

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 198 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 220 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 33 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 62 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M., Quinn, F. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Ectrosia. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1155 [secondary reference]

Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Ectrosia. Flora of Australia 44B: 429, 431, Fig. 77C APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Barrett, R.L., Peterson, P.M. & Romaschenko, K. (21 August 2020), A molecular phylogeny of Eragrostis (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Eragrostideae): making lovegrass monophyletic in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 33: 468 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory [sandplain], Port Essington, May 1840, Armstrong 529 (first-step lecto designated by C. E. Hubbard, Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 34: t. 3312, p. 12 (1936; no herbarium indicated); second-step lecto (designated here): K 000907196; isolecto: BRI AQ0319053, K 000907197, K 000907198 [incorrectly attributed to Swan River, J.Drummond on sheet; images seen for all (JSTOR 2019)])."

• Text: "Hubbard (1936) cited the type of the name Ectrosia agrostoides as ‘...Port Essington, May 1840, Armstrong 529 (type)’, but did not specify a herbarium where the type is held. This is here treated as effective lectotypification by Hubbard in accordance with ICN Art. 7.11 (Turland et al. 2018). Original mater[i]al of this name is held at BRI and K, and second-step lectotypification is, hereby, effected, in accordance with ICN Art. 9.17."

Barrett, R.L., Peterson, P.M. & Romaschenko, K. (21 August 2020), A molecular phylogeny of Eragrostis (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Eragrostideae): making lovegrass monophyletic in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 33: 468 [basionym]

basionym of: Eragrostis agrostoides (Benth.) R.L.Barrett & P.M.Peterson legitimate

Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (24 June 2021), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2020. Nuytsia 32: 9 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Eragrostis agrostoides (Benth.) R.L.Barrett & P.M.Peterson legitimate

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