Hughes, D.K. (1921), Revision of the Australian species of Stipa. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1921(1): 16, figs 17, 17A. [tax. nov.]

• Type: W. AUSTRALIA. Lake Cowcowing, Koch 1133 p.p.

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 8 [secondary reference]

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

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 177 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 144, 145 [secondary reference]

common name: Flat-awned Speargrass [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Stipa acrociliata var. minor Reader nom. inval., nom. nud.

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 437, Fig. 563 [secondary reference]

common name: Flat-awned spear-grass [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 38 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 93 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa acrociliata var. minor Reader nom. inval., nom. nud.

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Stipa. Flora of New South Wales 4: 643 [secondary reference]

common name: Flat-awn Speargrass [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 380, Fig. 75g-i [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa acrociliata var. minor Reader nom. inval., nom. nud. common name: Flat-awned Spear-grass [n/a]

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 platychaeta (Hughes) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 156 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa platychaeta (Hughes) 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: 23 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Austrostipa platychaeta (Hughes) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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