Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 60 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 30 [secondary reference]

Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1 November 1817), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique Suppl. 5(1): 496 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 132 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 623 [secondary reference]

Nash, G.V. in Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), Gramineae. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 1: 191 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Alopecurus pratensis L.

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 68 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek alopex, a fox; oura, tail; shape of the spike-like panicle."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 93-94 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek alopex, a fox; oura, tail; shape of the spike-like panicle"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 143 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 533 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 36 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 435 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 936 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 128 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Alopecurus. Flora of New South Wales 4: 567 [secondary reference]

common name: Foxtails [n/a]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 284 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 498 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 397 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 86 (fig.), 114-115 [secondary reference]

common name: Foxtails [n/a]

• Etymology: "from the Greek words for 'fox' and 'tail'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 31 [secondary reference]

Kodela, P.G., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Alopecurus. Flora of Australia 44A: 253 [secondary reference]

common name: Foxtails [n/a]

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