Hubbard, C.E. (December 1936), Hooker's Icones Plantarum 34(1): subt. 3312, p. 6 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "NORTHERN AUSTRALIA. Between the Fitzmaurice and Victoria Rivers, Oct. 1855, Mueller (type)."

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 88-89 [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]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 460-461 [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: 1156 [secondary reference]

common name: Hare's foot grass [n/a]

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 218 [secondary reference]

common name: Hare's Foot Grass [n/a]

Nightingale, M.E. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Ectrosia. Flora of Australia 44B: 436 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: 473-474 [secondary reference]

• Type: "AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory, between the Fitzmaurice and Victoria rivers, Oct. 1855, F.Mueller s.n. (holo: K 000907185 [image seen (JSTOR 2019)])."

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: 473-474 [basionym]

basionym of: Eragrostis scabrida (C.E.Hubb.) 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: 10 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Eragrostis scabrida (C.E.Hubb.) R.L.Barrett & P.M.Peterson legitimate

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