Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Description of fifty new Australian plants, chiefly from the colony of Victoria. Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science 1: 43-44 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In bushy parts of the Murray Desert, F. Mueller"

• Comment: See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.

Bailey, F.M. (1877), Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland: 20 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 133 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 28 [secondary reference]

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 44 [secondary reference]

common name: Spear-grass [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 623 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 66 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa pubescens R.Br. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 91-92 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 142, Fig. 33 [secondary reference]

common name: Plump Speargrass [n/a] common name: Liverpool Plains Grass [n/a] common name: Bristly Speargrass [n/a] common name: Plains Grass [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Stipa fusiformis Hughes legitimate

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 28-30 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa fusiformis Hughes legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 106 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa fusiformis Hughes legitimate common name: Plains Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Stipa. Flora of New South Wales 4: 646-647 [secondary reference]

common name: Plains Grass [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 391, Fig. 78a-b [secondary reference]

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 aristiglumis (F.Muell.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

Jessup, L.W. (2005), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 3 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa aristiglumis (F.Muell.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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

misapplied to: Austrostipa gibbosa (Vickery) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 91-92

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa aristiglumis (F.Muell.) 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 aristiglumis (F.Muell.) 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: 52 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa aristiglumis (F.Muell.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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