Host, N.T. (1809), Icones et Descriptiones Graminum Austriacorum 4: 24, t. 41 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Ammophila arundinacea Host nom. illeg. [= Ammophila arenarea (L.) Link].

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 71 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek ammos, sand; philos, loving."

Audas, J.W.C., St John, P.R.H. & Morris, P.F. (1932), Alien plants recorded as naturalised in Victoria. The Victorian Naturalist 49: 153 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 100 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Greek ammos, sand; philos, loving"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 159 [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: 537 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 36 [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: 936 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 351 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Psamma P.Beauv. legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Ammophila. Flora of New South Wales 4: 587 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 462 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 274 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 488 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 397 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 96 (fig.), 117 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "from the Greek words for 'sand' and 'loving'."

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 38 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Henwood, M.J., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Ammophila. Flora of Australia 44A: 237-238 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Calamagrostis Adans. legitimate

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