Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Description of fifty new Australian plants, chiefly from the colony of Victoria. Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science 1: 46 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "On the Avoca, Broughton, and Leight river, as also at the foot of the Flinders ranges, in localities subject to inundations."

• Comment: See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 130 [secondary reference]

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 34 [secondary reference]

common name: Rigid panick grass [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 610 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 318 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 60 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 73 [secondary reference]

common name: Coolah Grass [n/a]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 257 [secondary reference]

Vickery, J.W. (1975), Gramineae. Flora of New South Wales, National Herbarium of New South Wales 19(2): 158-160 [secondary reference]

common name: Coolah Grass [n/a] common name: Rigid Panic Grass [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 121 [secondary reference]

common name: Pallid Panic [n/a] common name: Coolah Grass [n/a] common name: Rigid Panic [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 49 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 35 [secondary reference]

Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 1970 [secondary reference]

Webster, R.D. (1987), The Australian Paniceae (Poaceae): 96 [basionym]

basionym of: Homopholis proluta (F.Muell.) R.D.Webster legitimate

Green, J.W. (20 June 1988), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 6: 3 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Homopholis proluta (F.Muell.) R.D.Webster legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 192, Fig. 30B [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Homopholis proluta (F.Muell.) R.D.Webster legitimate common name: Rigid Panic [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Wall, C.A. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poaceae p.p. Flora of New South Wales 4: 463 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Homopholis proluta (F.Muell.) R.D.Webster legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 606 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Homopholis proluta (F.Muell.) R.D.Webster legitimate

Wills, K.E., Whalley, R.D.B. & Bruhl, J.J. (13 July 2000), Systematic studies in Paniceae (Poaceae): Homopholis and Whalleya gen. et sp. nov. Australian Systematic Botany 13(3): 465 [basionym]

basionym of: Whalleya proluta (F.Muell.) Wills & J.J.Bruhl legitimate

Jessup, L.W. (2005), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 3 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Whalleya proluta (F.Muell.) Wills & J.J.Bruhl legitimate

Bruhl, J.J., Wilson, Peter G. & Wills, K.E. (25 August 2006), Grass not fungus: Walwhalleya nom. nov. (Poaceae, Paniceae). Australian Systematic Botany 19(4): 327 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (designated here): South Australia: 'Locis depressis planitierum saepe inundatis montes Flindersii v.'Oct. 1851, F.Mueller s.n. (MEL 19252).

Bruhl, J.J., Wilson, Peter G. & Wills, K.E. (25 August 2006), Grass not fungus: Walwhalleya nom. nov. (Poaceae, Paniceae). Australian Systematic Botany 19(4): 327 [basionym]

basionym of: Walwhalleya proluta (F.Muell.) Wills & J.J.Bruhl legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 400 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Walwhalleya proluta (F.Muell.) Wills & J.J.Bruhl legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2014), Australian Plant Census: - [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Walwhalleya jacobsiana R.D.B.Whalley & J.J.Bruhl legitimate by Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Flora of South Australia Edn. 4, 4: 1970

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