Black, J.M. (1931), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 29. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 55: 137, plate 6, fig. 5 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Near Riverton, March, 1931. According to the collector, Mr Worsley Johnston, it grows in tussocks inside the railway fence."

Vickery, J.W. (3 March 1941), A revision of the Australian species of Agrostis Linn. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 1(3): 106-107 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 96-97, Fig. 116 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. (19 December 1977), Endangered species in the South Australian native vascular flora. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1(2): 136 [secondary reference]

Threatened Species and Communities Section, Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia (8 July 1998), Endangered Species Protection Act 1992. Schedules 1, 2 & 3: 6 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. (5 January 2002), The genus Lachnagrostis (Gramineae) in Australia. Telopea 9(3): 446 [basionym]

basionym of: Lachnagrostis limitanea (J.M.Black) S.W.L.Jacobs legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Brown, A.J. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Lachnagrostis. Flora of Australia 44A: 183 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Lachnagrostis limitanea (J.M.Black) S.W.L.Jacobs legitimate

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