Clarke, C.B. (1908), New genera and species of Cyperaceae. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information. Additional Series 8: 18 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "AUSTRALIA. Dampier Archipelago and adjacent North Coast of Australia, Cunningham (hbb. Kew, Mus. Brit.); Walcott, Pemberton." "WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Mainland and islands of Dampier Archipelago, NW Coast, A.Cunningham, Feb. 1818; holo: K; iso: ?BM (n.v., but cited by Clarke), BRI (fragm.), MEL (n.v., but mentioned by Blake in litt.).", (ref.: K.L.Wilson, Telopea 4(3) (1991) 412).

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 443 [secondary reference]

pro parte misapplication: Cyperus gunnii Hook.f. legitimate by Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 283

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 12 [basionym]

basionym of: Cyperus cunninghamii (C.B.Clarke) C.A.Gardner legitimate

Kükenthal, G. in Engler, H.G.A. (1936), Cyperaceae-Scirpoideae-Cypereae. Das Pflanzenreich 101: 450 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus cunninghamii (C.B.Clarke) C.A.Gardner legitimate

Blake, S.T. (1947), Notes on Australian Cyperaceae, VII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 58(2): 37 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus cunninghamii (C.B.Clarke) C.A.Gardner legitimate

Wilson, K.L. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperacee - Cyperus, Lepidosperma, Baumea. Flora of Central Australia: 508 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus cunninghamii (C.B.Clarke) C.A.Gardner legitimate

Wilson, K.L. (27 September 1991), Systematic studies in Cyperus section Pinnati (Cyperaceae). Telopea 4(3): 415 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus cunninghamii (C.B.Clarke) C.A.Gardner subsp. cunninghamii legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1049 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus cunninghamii (C.B.Clarke) C.A.Gardner legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus cunninghamii (C.B.Clarke) C.A.Gardner legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Cyperus cunninghamii (C.B.Clarke) C.A.Gardner legitimate

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