Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 206 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 131 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 26 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 779 [basionym]

basionym of: Manisuris formosa (R.Br.) Kuntze legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 617 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 260 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 308 [secondary reference]

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 320 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 195 [secondary reference]

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Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 495, Fig. 630 [secondary reference]

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basionym of: Mnesithea formosa (R.Br.) de Koning & Sosef legitimate

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Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 2 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Mnesithea formosa (R.Br.) de Koning & Sosef legitimate

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nomenclatural synonym of: Mnesithea formosa (R.Br.) de Koning & Sosef legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Mnesithea formosa (R.Br.) de Koning & Sosef legitimate

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