Reader, F.M. (1901), Contributions to the Flora of Victoria. No. XI. The Victorian Naturalist 17: 154 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Flowers October to December. Sandy desert, Lowan, 1898; F.M. Reader.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 65-66 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 8 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 41. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 67: 90, Fig. 110 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa fusca C.E.Hubb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa variegata Summerh. & C.E.Hubb. legitimate pro parte misapplication: Stipa pubescens R.Br. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 570-571

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 180 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa rudis Spreng. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 54 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa pubescens var. auricoma Reader legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa variegata Summerh. & C.E.Hubb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa dura J.M.Black legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 38 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa fusca C.E.Hubb. legitimate

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 53-56 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa pubescens var. auricoma Reader legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa fusca C.E.Hubb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa variegata Summerh. & C.E.Hubb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa dura J.M.Black legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Stipa. Flora of New South Wales 4: 648 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 387-388, Fig. 77a [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa pubescens var. auricoma Reader legitimate common name: Desert Spear-grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (1 July 1996), Austrostipa, a new genus, and new names for Australasian species formerly included in Stipa (Gramineae). Telopea 6(4): 585 [basionym]

basionym of: Austrostipa eremophila (Reader) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa eremophila (Reader) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 154 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa eremophila (Reader) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

Everett, J., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Nairn, L. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Tribe Stipeae. Flora of Australia 44A: 56 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa eremophila (Reader) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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