Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. (1841), Florae Africae Australioris Illustrationes Monographicae. 1. Gramineae: 397 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Poa curvula Schrad. legitimate

Cross, D.O. & Vickery, J.W. (22 May 1950), List of the naturalised grasses in New South Wales. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 1(5): 277 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 525 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 118 [secondary reference]

common name: African Love grass [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 545 [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 64 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 99 [secondary reference]

common name: Weeping Lovegrass [n/a] common name: African Lovegrass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 45 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis chloromelas Steud. legitimate

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 460 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa curvula Schrad. legitimate common name: African lovegrass [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 33 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 63 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Eragrostis. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 960 [secondary reference]

common name: African Lovegrass [n/a]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 170 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa curvula Schrad. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis chloromelas Steud. legitimate common name: African Lovegrass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 539-540, pl. 29 [secondary reference]

common name: African Lovegrass [n/a]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 327 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa curvula Schrad. legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 562, Fig. 113f-h [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa curvula Schrad. legitimate common name: African Love-grass [n/a]

Lazarides, M., Cowley, K. & Hohnen, P. (1997), CSIRO Handbook of Australian Weeds: 201 [secondary reference]

common name: African Lovegrass [n/a]

Lazarides, M. (18 April 1997), A revision of Eragrostis (Eragrostideae, Eleusininae, Poaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10(1): 111, fig. 8h (map) [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa curvula Schrad. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis chloromelas Steud. legitimate

Veldkamp, J.F. (2002), Revision of Eragrostis (Gramineae, Chloridoideae) in Malesia. Blumea 47(1): 173-174 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa curvula Schrad. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 417 [secondary reference]

common name: African Lovegrass [n/a]

Palmer, J., Lazarides, M., McCusker, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eragrostis. Flora of Australia 44B: 358-359, Plate 52 APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa curvula Schrad. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis chloromelas Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eragrostis curvula var. valida Stapf legitimate common name: African Lovegrass [n/a]

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

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 250 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: African Lovegrass [n/a]

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: 376-377, photos 12-14 [secondary reference]

common name: African Lovegrass [n/a]

Baker, M.L., Wapstra, M. & Lawrence, D. (20 August 2019), An annotated census of the lesser-known naturalised plants of Tasmania. Muelleria 38: 61-62, Fig. 8 [secondary reference]

common name: African lovegrass [n/a]

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