Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 570 [tax. nov.]

• Type: W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. and n. 962

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

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

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 179 [secondary reference]

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

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 119 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa tenuifolia Steud. legitimate

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 2 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa tenuifolia Steud. legitimate

Everett, J., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Nairn, L. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Tribe Stipeae. Flora of Australia 44A: 49 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Austrostipa tenuifolia (Steud.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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