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): 482 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat α. et β. ad Monte-Video. (Sellow. – Vidi in Herb. Reg. Berol.)"

Cross, D.O. & Vickery, J.W. (22 May 1950), List of the naturalised grasses in New South Wales. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 1(5): 276 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 38 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Briza subaristata Lam. legitimate

Walsh, N.G., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Poa. Flora of Australia 44A: 342 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Briza subaristata Lam. legitimate

Essi, L., Longhi-Wagner, H.M. & Souza-Chies, T.T. (2017), A Synopsis of Briza, Brizochloa, and Chascolytrum (Poaceae, Pooideae, Poeae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 102(3): 511 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "[Uruguay.] Mentevideo, F. Sellow s.n. (holotype, B destroyed; lectotype, designated here, MO-2112272!)."

Essi, L., Longhi-Wagner, H.M. & Souza-Chies, T.T. (2017), A Synopsis of Briza, Brizochloa, and Chascolytrum (Poaceae, Pooideae, Poeae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 102(3): 511 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Chascolytrum subaristatum (Lam.) Desv. legitimate

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