Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 64 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae partis cultis & fertilibus."

Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 91 [basionym]

basionym of: Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1864), The Vegetation of the Chatham-Islands: 61 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 94 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 133 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 266 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 72 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 103 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 468 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 242 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 456 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate

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

orthographic variant: Aira caespitosa F.Muell. orth. var.

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Weiller, C.M., Kodela, P.G. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Deschampsia. Flora of Australia 44A: 257 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Deschampsia cespitosa (L.) P.Beauv. legitimate

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