Mueller, F.J.H. von (1859), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1(6): 160 [tax. nov.]

• Type: In pratis ad flumen Darling. Goodwin et Dallachy.

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 592 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Monachather paradoxus Steud. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 134 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1886), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 3: 6 [secondary reference]

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 11 [secondary reference]

common name: A Mulga grass [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 627 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 73 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 9 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 106, Fig. 133A [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 525 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 56 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (18 January 1956), A revision of the Australian species of Danthonia. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 2(3): 268-269 [secondary reference]

• Type: as "New South Wales: Darling River, Dallachy (MEL; duplicate K.)."

taxonomic synonym: Monachather paradoxus Steud. legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 56-57 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 220 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 48 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Monachather paradoxus Steud. legitimate

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 440 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Monachather paradoxus Steud. legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 141 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Monachather paradoxus Steud. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Monachather. Flora of New South Wales 4: 557 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Monachather paradoxus Steud. legitimate

Linder, H.P. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Trib. Danthonieae. Flora of Australia 44B: 21 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Monachather paradoxus Steud. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Monachather paradoxus Steud. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 303 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Monachather paradoxus Steud. legitimate

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