(1925), Decades Kewenses. Plantarum Novarum in Herbario Horti Regii Conservatorum. Decas CXIII. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1925(10): 431 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Jamestown, J.M. Black 2."

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

taxonomic synonym: Stipa pubescens var. comosa J.M.Black legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 49 [secondary reference]

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

common name: Crested Speargrass [n/a]

• Comment: Treated as Stipa blackii complex.

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

taxonomic synonym: Stipa aristiglumis var. cana Reader legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa pubescens var. comosa J.M.Black nom. illeg., nom. superfl. taxonomic synonym: Stipa clelandii Summerh. & C.E.Hubb. legitimate

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 32 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa aristiglumis var. cana Reader legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa pubescens var. comosa J.M.Black legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa clelandii Summerh. & C.E.Hubb. legitimate

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 2 [secondary reference]

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

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 191 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa clelandii Summerh. & C.E.Hubb. legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 393, Fig. 78d-f [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa aristiglumis var. cana Reader legitimate common name: Crested 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 blackii (C.E.Hubb.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa blackii (C.E.Hubb.) 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: 152 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa blackii (C.E.Hubb.) 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: 53 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa blackii (C.E.Hubb.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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