Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1812), Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie: 91, 160, t. 18, fig. 3 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Aira cespitosa L. legitimate

Hooker, J.D. (3 September 1858), The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror. III. Flora Tasmaniae 2(7): 118 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 587 [secondary reference]

Tate, R. (1880), A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 87 [secondary reference]

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 13 [secondary reference]

common name: Tufted hair grass [n/a]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 266 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira cespitosa L. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 72 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira cespitosa L. legitimate

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 9 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 103, Fig. 127 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira cespitosa L. legitimate

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 36, Fig.30. [secondary reference]

common name: Tufted Hair-Grass [n/a]

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 128, Fig. 82 [secondary reference]

common name: Tufted hair-grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 41 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 468-469 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira cespitosa L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Deschampsia penicillata Kirk legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Deschampsia. Flora of New South Wales 4: 593 [secondary reference]

common name: Tufted Hairgrass [n/a]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 242-243, Fig. 78A [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira cespitosa L. legitimate

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 456, Fig. 89h-i [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira cespitosa L. legitimate common name: Tufted Hair-grass [n/a]

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

orthographic variant: Deschampsia caespitosa P.Beauv. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Aira cespitosa L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Aira caespitosa F.Muell. orth. var.

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), NSW, Vic, Tas, MI

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 196 (fig.) [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Deschampsia caespitosa P.Beauv. orth. var. common name: Tufted Hairgrass [n/a]

Weiller, C.M., Kodela, P.G. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Deschampsia. Flora of Australia 44A: 257, Plate 27, Fig. 35A-B [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Deschampsia caespitosa P.Beauv. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Aira cespitosa L. legitimate common name: Tufted Hairgrass [n/a]

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