Trinius, C.B. von (1820), Fundamenta Agrostographiae: 175 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Stenotaphrum glabrum Trin. (nom. illeg.)

Mueller, F.J.H. von (March 1874), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(65): 156 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 3 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 612 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 78 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek stenos, narrow; taphron, a trench; alluding to the narrow rhachis of the spike"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 242 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 521 [secondary reference]

Sauer, J.D. (1972), Revision of Stenotaphrum (Gramineae: Paniceae) with Attention to its Historical Geography. Brittonia 24(2): 202-222 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 264-266 [secondary reference]

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

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 992 [secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 219-222 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 212 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 136 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Diastemanthe Steud. legitimate

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 495 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 503 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 487 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 344 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 604 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 436 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 91 (fig.), 380 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Greek for 'narrow' and 'trench'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 821 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2009), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Diastemanthe Steud. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI, SA (naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), CSI, NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Ophiurinella Desv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Diastemanthe Steud. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI, SA (naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), CSI, NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Morrone, O., Aagesen, L., Scataglini, M.A., Salariato, D.L., Denham, S.S., Chemisquy, M.A., Sede, S.M., Giussani, L.M., Kellog, E.A. & Zuloaga, F.O. (2012), Phylogeny of the Paniceae (Poaceae: Panicoideae): integrating plastid DNA sequences and morphology into a new classification. Cladistics 28(4): 349 [secondary reference]

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