Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 21, t. 6, fig. 6 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Gastridium australe Beauv. (nom. illeg.)

Ascherson, P.F.A. & Graebner, K.O.R.P.P. in Ascherson, P.F.A. & Graebner, K.O.R.P.P. (ed.) (30 December 1900), Synopsis der Mitteleuropaischen Flora 2(1), 3: 165 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 70 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Diminutive of Greek gaster, abdomen; spikelets swollen at base."

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 99 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Diminutive of Greek gaster, abdomen; spikelets swollen at base"

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 147 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 46 [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: 961 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Gastridium. Flora of New South Wales 4: 568 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 280 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 495 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 87 (fig.), 269 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "the Greek word for 'abdomen', referring to the spikelets swollen at the base"

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 351 [secondary reference]

Weiller, C.M., Kodela, P.G. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Gastridium. Flora of Australia 44A: 238 APC [secondary reference]

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

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