Black, J.M. (1941), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 40. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65: 333 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Morialta, Oct. 1925, J.B. Cleland, Port Noarlinga, Nov. 1926, J.B. Cleland; Ardrossan (Yorke Peninsula), Nov. 1932, E.C. Black."

Jessop, J.P. (19 December 1977), Endangered species in the South Australian native vascular flora. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1(2): 136 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 78 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "The second cited specimen, `Port Noarlunga, Nov. 1926, J.B. Cleland' (AD 97421231) ... We here designate this specimen as the Lectotype. A good duplicate of it, derived from Cleland herbarium, is also in AD."

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): 587 [basionym]

basionym of: Austrostipa multispiculis (J.M.Black) 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: 33 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa multispiculis (J.M.Black) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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