Black, J.M. (1943), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 41. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 67: 36 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Mount Lofty Range; Kangaroo Island."

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

Townrow, J. (1978), Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 112: 242 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "South Australia, Encounter Bay, Nov. 1930, Cleland (AD 97244092)"

• Comment: Townrow's lectotype predates that of Vickery et al. (1986), and must therefore be accepted.

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 64 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Kangaroo Island, near Vivonne Bay, J.B. Cleland, 11.1924' (AD 97244091) ... we here designate this as the Lectotype of the variety.

Vickery, J.W., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Everett, J. (17 August 1986), Taxonomic studies in Stipa (Poaceae) in Australia. Telopea 3(1): 64 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa hemipogon Benth. legitimate

Everett, J., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Nairn, L. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Tribe Stipeae. Flora of Australia 44A: 20 [taxonomic synonym]

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

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