Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 627-628 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. Gilbert River, Armit; Norman River, Gulliver."

• Etymology: (not specified.) [but presumably named in honour of W.E. de M. Armit (1848–1901), one of the collectors of the original material]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 133 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 624 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 200 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eriachne squarrosa R.Br. legitimate

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 221 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1981), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia: 9 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 442, Fig. 569C [secondary reference]

common name: Long-awned wanderrie [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. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Eriachne. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1168, Fig. 331A [secondary reference]

common name: Longawn Wanderrie grass [n/a]

Lazarides, M. (30 June 1995), The genus Eriachne (Eriachneae, Poaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 8(3): 366, figs 27 M, 29 H, 2 (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Syntypes: Queensland, Cook District, Gilbert River; Herb. F. Mueller, in 1876, W.E.D.M. Armit 514 (K, lectotype designated here; A, MEL 95273, US). Burke District, Normanton, Norman River; sp. no. 1, probably collected by T.A. Gullivers s.n. (MEL 92572).

Lazarides, M., Van den Borre, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eriachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 163 [secondary reference]

common name: Long-awned Wanderrie Grass [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Eriachne armittii Benth. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Dowe, J.L. & Short, P.S. (2 February 2024), The Gullivers’ travels: Thomas Allen Gulliver (1848–1931), Benjamin John Gulliver (1851–1938) and Susannah Gulliver (1857–1938): their contribution to Australian natural history and horticulture. Swainsona 38: 66 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "Gilbert River, 1876, W.E.D.M. Armit 514 (K001056590) fide Lazarides (1995: 366). Isolectotypes: A00023712; K001056589, ex herb. BRI; MEL95273; US01231884. Syntypes: Normanton, Norman River, sp. 1, s.dat., probably T.A. Gulliver s.n. (MEL95272; CANB 687392.1) (fide AVH & JSTOR-GP, Mar. 2023)."

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