Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 571 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll and n. 959; Murchison River, Oldfield."

Hughes, D.K. (1921), Revision of the Australian species of Stipa. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1921(1): 24 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Western Australia, Swan River, Drummond ... No. 959"

Hughes, D.K. (1921), Revision of the Australian species of Stipa. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew 1921(1): 24 [basionym]

basionym of: Stipa elatior (Benth.) Hughes legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 182 [basionym]

basionym of: Stipa variabilis var. elatior (Benth.) C.A.Gardner legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa flavescens Labill. legitimate

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 59 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Hughes cites: 'Western Australia, Swan River, Drummond 1st coll. and No. 959*; Harvey Steward 775; King Georges Sound, Brown 2603 p.p.'; by the asterisk she indicates Drummond 959 as the Type of S. elatior and, by implication, the Lectotype of S. scabra var. elatior Benth. Two sheets of Drummond No. 959 are at K(!) each named respectively in Bentham's and Hughes' handwritings. Duplicates specimens of this number are NSW 116766; MEL 59917, 59918."

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 59 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa flavescens Labill. legitimate

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 190 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa flavescens Labill. legitimate

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

taxonomic synonym of: Austrostipa flavescens (Labill.) 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: 29 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Austrostipa flavescens (Labill.) S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Everett legitimate

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