Hughes, D.K. (1921), Revision of the Australian species of Stipa. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1921(1): 14, fig. 12, 12A. [tax. nov.]

• Type: N.S. WALES, Murrumbidgee, McArthur 141.

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

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 87 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 182 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa variabilis var. striata (Benth.) C.A.Gardner legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 49 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 52 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender Spear Grass [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 144 [secondary reference]

common name: Winter Grass [n/a] common name: Slender Speargrass [n/a]

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

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 110 [basionym]

basionym of: Stipa scabra subsp. falcata (Hughes) Vickery, S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 104 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Stipa scabra subsp. falcata (Hughes) Vickery, S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Stipa. Flora of New South Wales 4: 645 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Stipa scabra subsp. falcata (Hughes) Vickery, S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 383 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Stipa scabra subsp. falcata (Hughes) Vickery, S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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): 588 [basionym]

basionym of: Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata (Hughes) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata (Hughes) 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: 159 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata (Hughes) 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: 48 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa scabra subsp. falcata (Hughes) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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