Jansen, P. (1930), Mededeelingen van's Rijks-Herbarium 59: 1 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Bridge Creek. Near Port Darwin (Australia) leg. Burkitt 1881."

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 320 [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]

Eck-Borsboom, M.H.J. van (1980), A revision of Eriachne R.Br. (Gramineae) in Asia and Malesia. Blumea 26(1): 131 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Burkitt 12 (holo in L; iso in MELB, n.v.).

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. (30 June 1995), The genus Eriachne (Eriachneae, Poaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 8(3): 373, figs 27O, Q, 28D, 6 (map) APC [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Northern Territory, Darwin and Guld District, near Port Darwin; Bridge Creek, in 1881, Burkitt 12 (lectotype of Eck-Borsboom (1980), L; isolecto, BRI, MEL, US).

nomenclatural synonym: Eriachne burkittii Jansen var. burkittii legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne laidlawii Jansen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne burkittii var. hirsutissima Jansen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne burkittii var. laidlawii (Jansen) Eck-Borsb. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Lazarides, M., Van den Borre, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eriachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 151, Fig. 24G-H [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eriachne burkittii var. hirsutissima Jansen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne laidlawii Jansen legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne burkittii var. laidlawii (Jansen) Eck-Borsb. legitimate

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