(1927), Decades Kewenses. Plantarum Novarum in Herbario Horti Regii Conservatarum. Decas CXVIII. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1927(8): 362 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Morialta, near Adelaide, Oct. 1925, J.B. Cleland S. 33."

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

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

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa densiflora Hughes legitimate

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 44 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa densiflora Hughes legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 104 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa densiflora Hughes legitimate

Everett, J., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Nairn, L. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Tribe Stipeae. Flora of Australia 44A: 19 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

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