Bailey, F.M. (1912), Botany. Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 28(4): 278, t. 58 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Herberton, Dr. F. Hamilton Kenny."

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 597, Fig. 576 [secondary reference]

Blake, S.T. (1940), Notes on Australian Cyperaceae, III. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 51(5): 48 [basionym]

basionym of: Schoenus kennyi (F.M.Bailey) S.T.Blake legitimate

Kükenthal, G. (1940), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. IX. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 48: 250 [basionym]

basionym of: Schoenus subaphyllus var. kennyi (F.M.Bailey) Kük. legitimate

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 344 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Schoenus kennyi (F.M.Bailey) S.T.Blake legitimate

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Schoenus kennyi (F.M.Bailey) S.T.Blake legitimate

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