Kunth, K.S. (1833), Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum 1: 26 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Agrostis ovata G.Forst. legitimate

• Comment: nom. illeg., non Knapp (1804). Kunth attributes this name to "Forst. Flor. Austral. 8" [i.e. J.G.Forster, Fl. Ins. Austr. 8 (1786)], but the name given there is Agrostis ovata G.Forst.

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Echinopogon ovatus (G.Forst.) P.Beauv. legitimate

Weiller, C.M., Kodela, P.G. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Echinopogon. Flora of Australia 44A: 224 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Echinopogon ovatus (G.Forst.) P.Beauv. legitimate

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