Kaliwatan sa balili ang Elymus brevipes.^[1] Una ning gihulagway ni Yi Li Keng ug Shou Liang Chen, ug gihatagan sa eksakto nga ngalan ni Shou Liang Chen.^[2] Ang Elymus brevipes sakop sa kahenera nga Elymus, ug kabanay nga balili.^[1][3]

Kini nga matang hayop na sabwag sa:

• Qinghai Sheng
• Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
• habagatan-sentrong & amihanan-sentrong Pangmasang Republika sa Tsina

Walay nalista nga matang nga sama niini.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2019). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2019 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. TaxonID: 43360720. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ S.L.Chen (2006) , In: Fl. China 22: 417
3. ↑ Govaerts R. (ed). For a full list of reviewers see: http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/compilersReviewers.do (2019). WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (version Aug 2017). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.