Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 180 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(D.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 94 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 134 [secondary reference]

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

Wakefield, N.A. (1955), Flora of Victoria: New species and other additions - 6. The Victorian Naturalist 72(7): 107 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 28 [secondary reference]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 98 [secondary reference]

vernacular name: Rock Poa [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): 177-178 [secondary reference]

• Type: "TASMANIA: Table Mountain (i.e. Mt. Wellington), R. Brown No. 6286, March 1804 (BM; photograph at NSW). Plate XIII."

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 134, Fig. 93 [secondary reference]

common name: Rock Poa [n/a]

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

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poa. Flora of New South Wales 4: 623-624 [secondary reference]

common name: Rock Poa [n/a]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 214-215 [secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 423 [secondary reference]

common name: Rock Poa [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 354 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Rock Poa [n/a]

Walsh, N.G., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Poa. Flora of Australia 44A: 337-338 [secondary reference]

common name: Rock Poa [n/a]

• APC Dist.: NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Soreng, R.J., Gillespie, L.J. & Jacobs, S.W.L. (23 December 2009), Saxipoa and Sylvipoa - two new genera and a new classification for Australian Poa (Poaceae: Poinae). Australian Systematic Botany 22(6): 407 [basionym]

basionym of: Saxipoa saxicola (R.Br.) Soreng, L.J.Gillespie & S.W.L.Jacobs legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Saxipoa saxicola (R.Br.) Soreng, L.J.Gillespie & S.W.L.Jacobs legitimate

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