Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 184 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1: 278 [basionym]

basionym of: Aira avenacea (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate

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: 199 [secondary reference]

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. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 34 [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. 331B [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eriachne setacea Benth. legitimate

Lazarides, M. (30 June 1995), The genus Eriachne (Eriachneae, Poaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 8(3): figs 27K, 4 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: "Northern Territory, Darwin and Gulf District, Cavern Island; 14.ii.1803, R. Brown (6263) (holo, BM; iso, B, BR, C, CANB, E, F, G, K)". [Actual date of collection more likely to be 14 January 1803 when the Investigator was in the vicinity of Cavern or Chasm Island.]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira avenacea (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne setacea Benth. legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 220 [secondary reference]

• Vernacular: guldja (Bardi)

Lazarides, M., Van den Borre, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eriachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 166-167, Fig. 26R-T APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira avenacea (R.Br.) Spreng. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne setacea Benth. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

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