Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Martius, C.F.P. von (1829), Agrostologia Brasiliensis seu Descriptio Graminum. Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 391-392 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat ad Monte Video et ad flumen Rio grande do Sul dictum, circa fines regni Paraguayani. (Sellow.) (vidi in Herb. Reg. Berol.)"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 23 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1952), Pseudoraphis spinescens (R.Br.) n. comb., and some records of New South Wales grasses. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 62: 72 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 530 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 50 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Phalaris angusta Nees ex Trin. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Phalaris angusta Nees ex Trin. legitimate

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