Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 67 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae pratis fertilissimis."

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: Kentucky blue grass [n/a] common name: English meadow grass [n/a]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 271 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1911), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 35: 3 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 80 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 123 [secondary reference]

common name: Meadow Poa [n/a] common name: Kentucky Blue Grass [n/a]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 107 [secondary reference]

common name: Meadow Poa [n/a] common name: Kentucky Bluegrass [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]

common name: Kentucky Blue Grass [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 29 [secondary reference]

common name: Meadow Grass [n/a] common name: Kentucky Blue-grass [n/a]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 97 [secondary reference]

vernacular name: Kentucky Blue-grass [n/a] vernacular name: English Meadow-grass [n/a]

Vickery, J.W. (7 December 1970), A taxonomic study of the genus Poa L. in Australia. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 4(4): 183-185 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 134, 135, Fig. 31 [secondary reference]

common name: Meadow Grass [n/a] common name: Meadow Poa [n/a] common name: Smooth-stalked Meadow Grass [n/a] common name: Kentucky Bluegrass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 51 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Poa angustifolia L. legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 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: 983 [secondary reference]

common name: Kentucky Bluegrass [n/a]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 108-109 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Poa angustifolia L. legitimate common name: Kentucky Bluegrass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poa. Flora of New South Wales 4: 624-625 [secondary reference]

common name: Kentucky Bluegrass [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 454 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 214 [secondary reference]

common name: Kentucky Blue Grass [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 421, FIg. 83i-l [secondary reference]

common name: Smooth Meadow-grass [n/a] common name: Kentucky Blue-grass [n/a]

Soreng, R.J. & Barrie, F.R. (February 1999), (1391) Proposal to conserve the name Poa pratensis (Gramineae) with a conserved type. Taxon 48: 157 [secondary reference]

• Text: "(1391) Poa pratensis L., Sp. Pl.: 67. 1 May 1753 [Gram.], nom. cons. prop."
• Text: "'Rossia, Prov. Sanct-Petersburg, 5 km australi-occidentem versus a st. viae ferr. Mga, pratulum ad ripam dextram fl. Mga,' 26 Jun 1997, Tzvelev N-257 (BM; isotypes: B, C, CAN, CONC, H, K, KW, L, LE, LIV, MA, MO, MW, NSW, P, PE, PR, S, SI, TNS, US, W), typ. cons. prop."

Brummitt, R.K. (November 2000), Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 50. Taxon 49: 802 [secondary reference]

• Text: "(1391). To conserve Poa pratensis L. with new type (Gramineae)... Votes: 15 : 0 (recommended)."

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 431 [secondary reference]

common name: Kentucky Bluegrass [n/a]

McNeill, J., Barrie, F.R., Burdet, H.M., Demoulin, V., Hawksworth, D.L., Marhold, K., Nicolson, D.H., Prado, J., Silva, P.C., Skog, J.E., Wiersema, J.H., Turland, N.J. (ed.) (2006), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code). Regnum Vegetabile 146: 459 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Rossia, Prov. Sanct-Petersburg, 5 km australi-occidentem versus a st. viae ferr. Mga, pratulum ad ripam dextram fl. Mga, 26 Jun 1997, Tzvelev N-257 (BM) (typ. cons.)."

Barrie, F.R. (August 2006), Report of the General Committee: 9. Taxon 55(3): 797 [secondary reference]

• Text: "The General Committee agreed (21:0:4) with all of the recommendations in the Report. The following proposals were recommended and are approved: ... (1391) Poa pratensis..."

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Poa angustifolia L. legitimate

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

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 353 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Kentucky Bluegrass [n/a]

Walsh, N.G., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Poa. Flora of Australia 44A: 311-312, Figs 41I-L, 42A [secondary reference]

common name: Kentucky Blue Grass [n/a]

Wiersema, J.H., McNeill, J., Turland, N.J., Barrie, F.R., Buck, W.R., Demoulin, V., Greuter, W., Hawksworth, D.L., Herendeen, P.S., Knapp, S., Marhold, K., Prado, J., Prud'homme van Reine, W.F. & Smith, G.F. (ed.) (2015), International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants (Melbourne Code): Appendices II-VII. Regnum Vegetabile 157: 405 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Rossia, Prov. Sanct-Petersburg, 5 km australi-occidentem versus a st. viae ferr. Mga, pratulum ad ripam dextram fl. Mga, 26 Jun 1997, Tzvelev 257 (BM) (typ. cons.)."

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: 382-383, photos 19-22 [secondary reference]

common name: Kentucky Bluegrass [n/a]

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