Desfontaines, R.L. (1798), Flora Atlantica 1: 67 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Alopecurus monspeliensis L. legitimate

Hooker, J.D. (3 September 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(7): 117 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1877), Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland: 19 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 536 [secondary reference]

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 54 [secondary reference]

common name: Beard grass [n/a]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 259 [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, Fig. 19 [secondary reference]

common name: Beard-grass [n/a]

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: 96, Fig. 115 [secondary reference]

common name: Beard-grass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Alopecurus monspeliensis L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phleum crinitum Roxb. legitimate

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]

common name: Annual Beard Grass [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 50, Fig. 41. [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Beard Grass [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 135-136 [secondary reference]

common name: Beard Grass [n/a] common name: Rabbit-foot Grass [n/a] common name: Annual Beardgrass [n/a]

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, Fig. 562 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Alopecurus monspeliensis L. legitimate common name: Annual beard grass [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 36 [secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 141 [secondary reference]

common name: Annual beardgrass [n/a]

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: 984 [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Beardgrass [n/a]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 127-128, Fig. 20E [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Alopecurus monspeliensis L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Phleum crinitum Roxb. legitimate common name: Annual Beardgrass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Polypogon. Flora of New South Wales 4: 566, pl. 30 [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Beardgrass [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Alopecurus monspeliensis L. legitimate

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 282, Fig. 91A [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Alopecurus monspeliensis L. legitimate common name: Annual Beard Grass [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 497, Fig. 97c-d [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Alopecurus monspeliensis L. legitimate common name: Annual Beard-grass [n/a]

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

common name: Annual Beardgrass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 356-357 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Beardgrass [n/a]

Weiller, C.M., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Polypogon. Flora of Australia 44A: 230-231, Fig. 32C [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Alopecurus monspeliensis L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polypogon monspeliensis var. rosei F.M.Bailey legitimate common name: Annual Beardgrass [n/a]

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

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 384-385, photos 1-4 [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Beardgrass [n/a]

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

orthographic variant: Polypogon monspieliensis N.G.Walsh orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Alopecurus monspeliensis L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polypogon monspeliensis var. rosei F.M.Bailey legitimate

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

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