Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 173 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Pentapogon billardierei R.Br. (nom. illeg.)

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

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 71 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek pente, five; pogon, beard: the flowering glume has 5 awns."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 100 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek pente, five; pogon, beard; the flowering glume has 5 awns"

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 50 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Pentapogon. Flora of New South Wales 4: 586 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 275 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 491 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 82 (fig.), 335 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Greek words for 'five' and 'beard'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 645 [secondary reference]

Kodela, P.G., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Pentapogon. Flora of Australia 44A: 233-234 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, SA, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Peterson, P.M., Soreng, R.J., Romaschenko, K., Barberá, P., Quintanar, A., Aedo, C. & Saarela, J.M. (11 December 2021), Phylogeny and biogeography of Calamagrostis (Poaceae: Pooideae: Poeae: Agrostidinae), description of a new genus, Condilorachia (Calothecinae), and expansion of Greeneochloa and Pentapogon (Echinopogoninae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution 60(3): 586 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Dichelachne Endl. legitimate

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