Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(2): 128 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Drummond Coll. IV. nr. 578 Australasia

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

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 8 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 88-89, Fig. 108 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa luehmannii Reader legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa horrifolia J.M.Black legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 176 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 179 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa arachnopus Pilg. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 54 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa luehmannii Reader legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa horrifolia J.M.Black legitimate

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 438 [secondary reference]

common name: Cottony spear-grass [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 37 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 47 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa luehmannii Reader legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa horrifolia J.M.Black legitimate doubtful taxonomic synonym: Stipa scabra var. subtricha Reader legitimate doubtful taxonomic synonym: Stipa scabra var. auriculata J.M.Black legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Stipa. Flora of New South Wales 4: 644 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 385, Fig. 76a-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): 585 [basionym]

basionym of: Austrostipa drummondii (Steud.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa drummondii (Steud.) 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: 153 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa drummondii (Steud.) 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: 45 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

---