Reader, F.M. (1897), Contributions to the Flora of Victoria. No. II. The Victorian Naturalist 13: 168 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Flowering October, November. – Sandy desert, Lowan Shire. 1895, F. Reader."

taxonomic synonym: Stipa readeri Reader nom. inval., pro syn.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 65 [secondary reference]

Hughes, D.K. (1922), Further notes on the Australian species of Stipa. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1922(1): 19 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 178 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 142 [secondary reference]

common name: Graceful Speargrass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 53 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 37 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 25 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa readeri Reader nom. inval., pro syn.

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Stipa. Flora of New South Wales 4: 643 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 380, Fig. 75a-c [secondary reference]

common name: Graceful Spear-grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (1 July 1996), Austrostipa, a new genus, and new names for Australasian species formerly included in Stipa (Gramineae). Telopea 6(4): 584 [basionym]

basionym of: Austrostipa acrociliata (Reader) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa acrociliata (Reader) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 151 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa acrociliata (Reader) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

Everett, J., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Nairn, L. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Tribe Stipeae. Flora of Australia 44A: 22 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa acrociliata (Reader) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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