Hughes, D.K. (1922), Further notes on the Australian species of Stipa. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1922(1): 20, fig. 2 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. S. WALES. Cooma, Jan. 1887, R.T. Baker."

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

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 52-53, Fig, 45. [secondary reference]

common name: Tall Spear Grass [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 143 [secondary reference]

common name: Plains Grass [n/a] common name: Tall Speargrass [n/a]

• Vernacular: Yanganbil

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

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

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

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 190 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 390-391, Fig. 78c [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 bigeniculata (Hughes) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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

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

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 152 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

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