Reader, F.M. (1900), Contributions to the Flora of Victoria. No. IX. The Victorian Naturalist 16: 158-159 [tax. nov.]

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

• Etymology: "The species is named in honour of Mr. J. G. Luehmann, curator of that magnificent collection of plants — the National Herbarium."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 89 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa drummondii Steud. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa arachnopus Pilg. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa drummondii Steud. legitimate

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 47 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa drummondii Steud. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Austrostipa drummondii (Steud.) 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: 45 [taxonomic synonym]

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

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