Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 256 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "(T.) v.v."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 122 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (10 March 1884), Systematic Census of Australian Plants Suppl. 1: 5 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Xyris elongata Rudge legitimate

Rendle, A.B. (1899), Notes on Xyris. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 37: 500 [secondary reference]

• Type: "Carpentaria, Brown, no. 5732."

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 278 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 506 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Xyris elongata Rudge legitimate

Royen, P. van (March 1953), Xyridaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 4(4): 369, fig 1 A, 2 (map) [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Xyris elongata Rudge legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris walkeri Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris malaccensis Steud. legitimate

Anonymous in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), Plants collected by Dr H. Basedow on the Mackay Expedition in Arnhem Land, 1928. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 321 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 211 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Xyris elongata Rudge legitimate

Evans, O.D. (1966), Xyridaceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 27: 7-8 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Xyris laevis R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris scabra R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris elongata Rudge legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris walkeri Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris malaccensis Steud. legitimate misapplication: Xyris anceps Lam. legitimate by Vahl, M.(H.) (1805), Enumeratio Plantarum 2: 205

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 227 [secondary reference]

Williams, K.A.W. (1980), Native Plants of Queensland Edn. 2, 1: 280 [secondary reference]

common name: Hatpins [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 59 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 46 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 81 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Xyridaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 79-80 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Xyridaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1024 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Xyris elongata Rudge legitimate

Doust, A.N. & Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Xyridaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 263 [secondary reference]

Doust, A.N. & Conn, B.J. (26 October 1994), Xyris L. section Xyris (Xyridaceae) in Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 7(5): 461-462, figs 3a-k, 4 (map) [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: (here chosen): (Queensland: Cook) 'Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria', Brown s.n. (Bennett no. 5732), (BM; isolecto K).

taxonomic synonym: Xyris laevis R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris scabra R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris elongata Rudge legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris walkeri Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris complanata var. leptocaulis Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris leptocaulis (Benth.) Domin legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 228 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Xyris complanata R.Br. var. complanata legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris scabra R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris laevis R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris elongata Rudge legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris walkeri Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris complanata var. leptocaulis Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris leptocaulis (Benth.) Domin legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Xyris complanata R.Br. var. complanata legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris scabra R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris laevis R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris elongata Rudge legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris walkeri Kunth legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris malaccensis Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris complanata var. leptocaulis Benth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Xyris leptocaulis (Benth.) Domin legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld, NSW

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