Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 31, 148, 151 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Agrostis spica-venti L. legitimate

Ewart, A.J. (1908), Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. VIII. The Victorian Naturalist 24(12): 190 [secondary reference]

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

orthographic variant: Apera spica-ventii A.D.Chapm. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Agrostis spica-venti L. legitimate

• APC Comment: A northern hemisphere taxon, recorded as a "naturalized alien" by A.J.Ewart, Vict. Naturalist 24: 191 (1908) but not known to be naturalised in Australia.

Walsh, N.G. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Apera. Flora of Australia 44A: 242 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Referred to by A.J.Ewart, Vict. Naturalist 24: 191 (1908), but not listed since in Victorian floras and no specimens have been seen."

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