Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 75 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Habitat in Europe pascuis siccis steribilis.

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 273 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Festuca pratensis Huds. legitimate

Ewart, A.J. (1908), Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. VIII. The Victorian Naturalist 24(12): 191 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1925), List of the naturalised plants of extra-tropical Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 11(8): 71 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 10 [secondary reference]

Morris, P.F. in Ewart, A.J. (1931), Gramineae. Flora of Victoria: 152 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 126 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Festuca pratensis Huds. legitimate common name: Meadow Fescue [n/a]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 92 [secondary reference]

common name: Tall Fescue [n/a] common name: Meadow Fescue [n/a]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 67 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Festuca pratensis Huds. legitimate

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 103 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Festuca arundinacea Schreb. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 46 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Festuca pratensis Huds. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 34 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Festuca arundinacea Schreb. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Festuca. Flora of New South Wales 4: 609 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Festuca arundinacea Schreb. legitimate common name: Tall Fescue [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Festuca pratensis Huds. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 92

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Festuca pratensis Huds. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 126

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

misapplied to: Festuca arundinacea Schreb. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 92

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 268 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Festuca pratensis Huds. legitimate

Weiller, C.M., Walsh, N.G. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Festuca. Flora of Australia 44A: 278 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Festuca pratensis Huds. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1925), List of the naturalised plants of extra-tropical Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 11(8): 71

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Festuca pratensis Huds. legitimate by Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 126

Banfi, E.A., Galasso, G., Foggi, B., Kopecký, D. & Ardenghi, N.M.G. (2017), From Schedonorus and Micropyropsis to Lolium (Poaceae: Loliinae): New combinations and typifications. Taxon 66(3): 709 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) Darbysh. subsp. arundinaceum legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Lolium pratense (Huds.) Darbysh. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 92

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) Darbysh. legitimate by Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 92

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