Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 68 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "WESTERN AUSTRALIA: 7 miles [11 km] N. of "Mundrabilla" Homestead, Found growing on gently undulating calcareous plain up to a height of 45 cm in a herbfield. Mitchell 2, 31 July 1974 (PERTH)."

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

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): 586 [basionym]

basionym of: Austrostipa lanata (Vickery, S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett) 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: 28 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa lanata (Vickery, S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

Williams, A.R. (8 March 2022), Austrostipa (Poaceae) in Western Australia: new species, new records, keys, and character notes. Nuytsia 33: 81 [secondary reference]

• Type: "north of Mundrabilla Homestead, Western Australia [precise locality withheld for conservation reasons], 31 July 1974, A.A. Mitchell 2 (holo: PERTH 00985961!)."

• Etymology: "From Latin meaning ‘woolly’, regarding the sheath orifice indumentum"

Williams, A.R. (8 March 2022), Austrostipa (Poaceae) in Western Australia: new species, new records, keys, and character notes. Nuytsia 33: 81 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa lanata (Vickery, S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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