Black, J.M. (1941), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 40. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65: 334 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Victor Harbour, Inman Valley, 1926, J.B. Cleland; Mount Pleasant, 1933, E.C. Black, Wilpena Pound, 1930, J.B. Cleland."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 89-90 [secondary reference]

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

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

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa mollis R.Br. legitimate

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 74 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Specimens from Black's herbarium are mounted together on AD 97403342. The specimen mounted on the right hand side of the sheet from Victor Harbor, Nov. 1926, consists of a complete culm with associated inflorescence in good condition and we here designate this specimen as the Lectotype od S. plagiopogon J.M. Black (Dupl. MEL 59968)."

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 74 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa mollis R.Br. legitimate

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 189 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa mollis R.Br. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Austrostipa mollis (R.Br.) 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: 17 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Austrostipa mollis (R.Br.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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