Desfontaines, R.L. (1798), Flora Atlantica 1: 66 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Polypogon monspeliensis (L.) Desf.

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 173 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 131 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 623 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 69 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek polys, many; pogon, a beard: alluding to the bristly panicle."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 97 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek polys, many; pogon, a beard; alluding to the bristly panicle"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 140 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 533 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 50 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 52 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 436 [secondary reference]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 983 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 127 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Polypogon. Flora of New South Wales 4: 566 [secondary reference]

common name: Beardgrasses [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 465 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 281 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 496 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 432 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 86 (fig.), 356 [secondary reference]

common name: Beardgrass [n/a]

• Etymology: "from the Greek words for 'many' and 'bearded', referring to the awns"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 690 [secondary reference]

Weiller, C.M., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Polypogon. Flora of Australia 44A: 229 [secondary reference]

common name: Beard Grasses [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2016), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Polypogon sect. Eupolypogon Asch. & Graebn. nom. inval.

• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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