Steudel, E.G. von (1854), Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1(2): 128 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Drummond Coll. IV. 391, N. Holl.

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 571 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Stipa scabra var. occidentalis Benth. legitimate

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

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 180 [secondary reference]

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): 119 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa scabra var. pubescens Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa eriopus Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa scabra var. occidentalis Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa incurva Hughes legitimate taxonomic synonym: Stipa leptophylla Hughes legitimate

Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 2 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Stipa eriopus Benth. legitimate misapplication: Stipa leptophylla Hughes legitimate by Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 38

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): 589 [basionym]

basionym of: Austrostipa tenuifolia (Steud.) 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: 49 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

Williams, A.R. (8 March 2022), Austrostipa (Poaceae) in Western Australia: new species, new records, keys, and character notes. Nuytsia 33: 97 [secondary reference]

• Type: "N. Holl [Western Australia], Drummond coll. IV. n. 391 (holo: P!; iso: K!, MEL 59997!)."

Williams, A.R. (8 March 2022), Austrostipa (Poaceae) in Western Australia: new species, new records, keys, and character notes. Nuytsia 33: 97 [nomenclatural synonym]

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

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