This name is a synonym.
* Agropyron violaceum var. hyperarcticum Polunin, Bull. Natl. Mus. Canada 92: 95 (1940).
Roegneria borealis var. hyperarctica (Polunin) Melderis, Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 44: 161 (1950).
Roegneria borealis subsp. hyperarctica (Polunin) Á.Löve & D.Löve, Acta Horti Gothob. 20: 188 (1956).
Roegneria hyperarctica (Polunin) Tzvelev, Fl. Arct. URSS 2: 244 (1964).
Agropyron boreale subsp. hyperarcticum (Polunin) Melderis, Ark. Bot., a.s., 7(1): 19 (1967 publ. 1968).
Elymus hyperarcticus (Polunin) Tzvelev, Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 9: 61 (1972).
Elymus sajanensis subsp. hyperarcticus (Polunin) Tzvelev, Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 10: 24 (1973).
Agropyron boreale var. hyperarcticum (Polunin) S.L.Welsh in J.P.Anderson, Fl. Alaska: 546 (1974).
* Basionym/Replaced Synonym