Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 42 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 26 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 231 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 352 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chaetospora R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Helothrix Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Isoschoenus Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gymnochaeta Steud. legitimate

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 127 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chaetospora R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Elynanthus P.Beauv. ex T.Lestib. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gymnoschoenus Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Isoschoenus Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Helothrix Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Tricostularia Nees ex Lehm. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Mesomelaena Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Discopodium Steud. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Gymnochaeta Steud. legitimate

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 598 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 90 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin for some grass or reed, from Greek skhoinos."

Hitchcock, A.S. (1 November 1923), Type species of the first 100 genera of Linnaeus' Species Plantarum. American Journal of Botany 10(9): 514 [secondary reference]

• Type: Schoenus nigricans L.

Kükenthal, G. (1938), Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Rhynchosporoideae. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 44(1): 5 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 147 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin for some grass or reed, from Greek skhoinos"

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 498, Fig. 59I [secondary reference]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 72 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 80 [secondary reference]

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 672-680 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chaetospora R.Br. legitimate

Costin, A.B., Gray, M., Totterdell, C.J. & Wimbush, D.J. (1979), Kosciusko Alpine Flora Edn. 1: 141 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 16 [secondary reference]

Latz, P.K. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Cyperaceae (most genera). Flora of Central Australia: 498-499 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 895-896 [secondary reference]

Sharpe, P. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Cyperaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 341-343 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 93 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Chaetospora R.Br. legitimate

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Cyperaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1102-1103 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Cyperaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 298-299 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Schoenus. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 111-113 [secondary reference]

Wilson, K.L. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Cyperaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 245-247 [secondary reference]

Goetghebeur, P. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Cyperaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 175-176 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 286 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 780 [secondary reference]

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

taxonomic synonym: Chaetospora R.Br. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Helothrix Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Isoschoenus Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gymnochaeta Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ptilanthelium Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chaetospora sect. Lepidospora F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chaetospora R.Br. sect. Chaetospora legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lepidospora (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Schoenus sect. Helothrix (Nees) Kük. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (29 September 2022), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Isoschoenus Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Helothrix Nees legitimate taxonomic synonym: Gymnochaeta Steud. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Chaetospora sect. Lepidospora F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lepidospora (F.Muell.) F.Muell. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lophocarpus Boeckeler legitimate taxonomic synonym: Schoenus sect. Helothrix (Nees) Kük. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas

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