Hubbard, C.E. (December 1936), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 34(1): subt. 3312, p. 11 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "QUEENSLAND. North Kennedy District: Cleveland Bay, barren soils, June 1819, Cunningham 350."

Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Ectrosia. Flora of Australia 44B: 429 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Ectrosia leporina R.Br. var. leporina legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ectrosia leporina R.Br. legitimate

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: 472 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "AUSTRALIA: Queensland, Cleveland Bay, June 1819, A.Cunningham 350 (lecto, designated here: K 000907188; isolecto: BRI AQ0319063 (2 sheets) [images seen for all (JSTOR 2019)])."

• Text: "Hubbard (1936) did not use the word ‘type’ to indicate a type specimen for the name Ectrosia leporina var. longiglumis, nor did he indicate a herbarium in which the type collection is housed."

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: 472 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eragrostis leporina (R.Br.) R.L.Barrett & P.M.Peterson legitimate

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