Hubbard, C.E. (December 1936), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 34(1): subt. 3312, p. 4 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "QUEENSLAND. Burke District: Croydon, open depressions on whitish sand, 105 m., May 1935, Blake 9104."

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]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1987), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 1: 41 [secondary reference]

Thomas, M.B. & McDonald, W.J.F. (1989), Rare and threatened plants of Queensland: a checklist of geographically restricted, poorly collected and/or threatened vascular plant species Edn. 2: 44 [secondary reference]

Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3: 19 [secondary reference]

Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Ectrosia. Flora of Australia 44B: 431-432 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: NT, Qld

Bostock, P.D. & Holland, A.E. (November 2015), Appendix A: New names and name and status changes 2014 census to 2015 census. Introduction to the Census of the Queensland Flora 2015: 26 [secondary reference]

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: 470 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: AUSTRALIA: Queensland, Burke District, Croydon, open depressions on whitish sand, 105 m, 22 May 1935, S.T.Blake 9104 (lecto: K 000907181 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)]; isolecto: BRI AQ0319057 (3 sheets) [images seen (JSTOR 2019)], K 000907182 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)], MEL 2278946!, NSW 556200!, NSW 556201!, US 00151790!), designated here."

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: 470 [basionym]

basionym of: Eragrostis blakei (C.E.Hubb.) R.L.Barrett & P.M.Peterson legitimate

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