Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. (1834), Semina quae pro mutua Commutatione offert Hortus Botanicus Vratislaviensis 1834: [1, 3]. [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Locis humidis, ad aquas stagnantes circa fl. Zwartkops-Rivier C. B. spei."

Ewart, A.J. & Tovey, J.R. (1920), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 28. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 32: 190 [secondary reference]

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

isonym: Agrostis lachnantha Nees isonym

• APC Comment: An African taxon recorded by A.J.Ewart & J.R.Tovey, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria n.s. 32: 190 (1920) and A.J.Ewart, Fl. Victoria (1930), but not known to be naturalised in Australia.

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Agrostis. Flora of Australia 44A: 173 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Listed as occuring in Australia by A.J.Ewart & J.R.Tovey, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria n.ser. 32: 190 (1920). A South African species apparently planted as a pasture grass in Victoria in the early 1900s according to A.J.Ewart, Fl. Victoria (1930), but not referred to since that time and unlikely to persist."

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